[FYI] Motif finally opened under LGPL

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Oct 25 13:32:49 UTC 2012


On 10/25/2012 02:14 PM, 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?
>
I am not aware of any[1], but why use an imitation, when the original is 
available?

Ralf

[1] This doesn't mean much. I am currently only using Lesstif/Motif as 
part of "keep-alive maintainance" of older works. My last active use of 
Motif/Lesstif dates back ca. a decade ;)



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