openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 10:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
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> topic are available at
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> Per discussion on the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list, openmotif
> currently does not meet Fedora's licensing requirements.  The openmotif
> developers have been contacted, but it appears openmotif's licensing
> will not be changing soon.
> 
> The hard decision has been made that openmotif will be removed from
> Fedora and the current plan is to make this happen by October 2, 2006,
> the final development freeze for Fedora Core 6.
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> 
> Maintainers need to update their packages to use another motif
> implementation, lesstif (in Extras). It is not 100% ABI-compatible (and
> provides a different shared library soname), but all that should be
> required for most motif-dependent applications is changing

Considering the fact that packages such as ddd and xpdf are part of
Core, wouldn't be prudent to push lessif into Core?

Gilboa