This bug is filed as part of the FSF compatible licensing audit of Fedora: The openmotif license is obviously not FSF compatible, and we really should get it out of Fedora Core. In Fedora Core development, there are four dependent packages (a lot more in Extras, so we probably can't nuke it from orbit): - ddd (nothing depends on it, should go to FE) - tetex-xdvi (if we pass --with-xdvi-x-toolkit=xaw to configure, we eliminate the motif dependency) - xpdf (nothing seems to explicitly depend on it, with evince around, this can probably go to FE) - mesa-libGLw (this guy is hard. we could disable motif support for this library, but as Bugzilla 175251 points out, it is kindof worthless without it. Also does not seem to be trivial to move into its own subpackage, but nothing in Core requires it. X11 team needs to fix this one.) Work should be done to separate mesa-libGLw into its own SRPM, then it should be moved into Fedora Extras along with openmotif, ddd, and xpdf.
IMHO, it shouldn't be moved to Extras (where I believe the license would be just as unacceptable, it is neither FSF- nor OSI-approved and doesn't fit either's definition of Free Software resp. Open Source), but reverted to lesstif (which should be in Extras, not Core, but that's unrelated to licensing). Why was the switch from lesstif to OpenMotif (towards the end of RHL time) made in the first place?
In Ubuntu, ddd depends on lesstif2, not openmotif. I don't know about mesa-libGLw, but xpdf can be dropped if it can't be compiled with lesstif.
FYI, see also Bugzilla Bug #203274 â Review Request: lesstif - OSF/Motif(R) library clone
I have filled Bug #203993 against openmotif to have parallel, that could be relevant here. Should this bug really block FC6? It seems rather short to me, I believe it would better fit in the FC7 time frame. It would be nice to have parallel installable packages ready when FC7 begins and rebuild everything/move to extras such that we have switched and put openmotif in a repo where it can be easily used by those who want it when FC7 gors out.
This has been whacked.