It has come to my attention that openmotif is not compatible with the
GRASS license. Most of the functionality has been duplicated in
lesstif, which has a compatible license.
I've been able to successfully compile GRASS using lesstif as a drop-in
replacement.
Should we move GRASS to lesstif? All that really needs to be done is
simply replace text that says openmotif/motif with lesstif (ie.
cosmetics).
Redhat has officially dropped support for openmotif and anything that
won't compile without it as of Fedora Core 6. I assume other vendors
will follow.
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Brad Douglas <rez touchofmadness com> KB8UYR/6
Address: 37.493,-121.924 / WGS84 National Map Corps #TNMC-3785
It has come to my attention that openmotif is not compatible with the
GRASS license. Most of the functionality has been duplicated in
lesstif, which has a compatible license.
I've been able to successfully compile GRASS using lesstif as a drop-in
replacement.
I've been compiling GRASS against lesstif for years on Linux and MacOSX, no troubles, although I have only actually used the xanim program once or twice.
Should we move GRASS to lesstif? All that really needs to be done is
simply replace text that says openmotif/motif with lesstif (ie.
cosmetics).
What text do you mean? REQUIREMENTS.html lists lesstif as the suggested dependency, and a google search for Motif and GRASS only finds mailing list discussions and pointers to packages... ah-ha, that's one place I guess, the rpm spec files... Debian is already using lesstif. Anything else that I'm missing?
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 22:04 -0500, Scott Mitchell wrote:
On 5 Nov 2006, at 19:27, Brad Douglas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It has come to my attention that openmotif is not compatible with the
> GRASS license. Most of the functionality has been duplicated in
> lesstif, which has a compatible license.
>
> I've been able to successfully compile GRASS using lesstif as a
> drop-in
> replacement.
I've been compiling GRASS against lesstif for years on Linux and
MacOSX, no troubles, although I have only actually used the xanim
program once or twice.
I guess I'm a little slow, then. I was not aware of lesstif until
recently. I obviously missed it in REQUIREMENTS.html. Thank you for
pointing that out.
> Should we move GRASS to lesstif? All that really needs to be done is
> simply replace text that says openmotif/motif with lesstif (ie.
> cosmetics).
What text do you mean? REQUIREMENTS.html lists lesstif as the
suggested dependency, and a google search for Motif and GRASS only
finds mailing list discussions and pointers to packages... ah-ha,
that's one place I guess, the rpm spec files... Debian is already
using lesstif. Anything else that I'm missing?
I'm talking about things like the 'configure' script. Change
'--with-motif' to '--with-lesstif'. That kind of stuff. '--with-motif'
implies openmotif, not lesstif.
--
Brad Douglas <rez touchofmadness com> KB8UYR/6
Address: 37.493,-121.924 / WGS84 National Map Corps #TNMC-3785
It has come to my attention that openmotif is not compatible with the
GRASS license. Most of the functionality has been duplicated in
lesstif, which has a compatible license.
I've been able to successfully compile GRASS using lesstif as a
drop-in replacement.
Should we move GRASS to lesstif? All that really needs to be done is
simply replace text that says openmotif/motif with lesstif (ie.
cosmetics).
Redhat has officially dropped support for openmotif and anything that
won't compile without it as of Fedora Core 6. I assume other vendors
will follow.
FWIW I've been running GRASS with lesstif (Debian) for years.
REQUIREMENTS.html already points towards lesstif's version.
It has come to my attention that openmotif is not compatible with the
GRASS license.
That's debatable.
Ironically, commercially-licenced versions of Motif are potentially
less of a problem, as the GPL provides an exception for "major
components ... of the operating system". On commercial Unices, Motif
is frequently part of the OS.
So, the issue primarily relates to OpenMotif (which is just a copy of
Motif distributed under the Open Group Public Licence; at a technical
level, OpenMotif is the same product as a commercial version of
Motif).
Even there, it's only an issue insofar as Motif isn't considered
"standard" on platforms for which the OpenMotif licence applies.
> > Should we move GRASS to lesstif? All that really needs to be done is
> > simply replace text that says openmotif/motif with lesstif (ie.
> > cosmetics).
>
> What text do you mean? REQUIREMENTS.html lists lesstif as the
> suggested dependency, and a google search for Motif and GRASS only
> finds mailing list discussions and pointers to packages... ah-ha,
> that's one place I guess, the rpm spec files... Debian is already
> using lesstif. Anything else that I'm missing?
I'm talking about things like the 'configure' script. Change
'--with-motif' to '--with-lesstif'. That kind of stuff. '--with-motif'
implies openmotif, not lesstif.
No, it implies something compatible with IEEE 1295, i.e. Motif
(whether OpenMotif or a commercial version), or a clone thereof.
BTW, a version linked against OpenMotif (or even a commercial version)
should work with LessTif and vice-versa, although you might need to
add a symlink to cater for different major version numbers.
I was not aware of lesstif until