[FYI] Motif finally opened under LGPL

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Oct 25 13:20:01 UTC 2012


On 10/25/12 14:14, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:44:13AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Time to move Motif from "unpronounceable 3rd party repo" into Fedora
>> and to consider rebuilding all lesstif-linked packages against it ;)
> 
> Are there any particular drawbacks to lesstif at this point?

It's been a few years I looked at this, but the lesstif implementation
was incomlete/buggy and some apps didn't run properly with lesstif but
did with openmotif.

cheers,
  Gerd




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