[fab] Re: openmotif

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Aug 29 17:30:08 UTC 2006


Rahul (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >Rahul (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> >>We *already* have many packages both in Fedora Core and Fedora Extras 
> >>that dont meet the guidelines. If we are going to clean it up, we can do 
> >>so in a better manner than just dumping out packages.
> >
> >What packages do we have that are *neither* OSI or FSF?
> >
> 
> None of the packages altered or dropped from Fedora Core so far meet 
> either the OSI or FSF guidelines. Openmotif and its dependencies in 
> Fedora Core dont. Few others like lha listed in the last audit update 
> mail probably isnt OSI compliant either.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2006-August/msg00076.html
> 
> We havent done the analysis in Fedora Extras yet including on all the 
> packages tagged "distributable".

That link is FSF, though - AFAIK, everything in Extras should have gone under
review to certify that it's at least OSI or FSF.

Bill




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