Re^4: why ddd-?motif are gone from archive?
Am 06.03.98 schrieb sr1 # os.inf.tu-dresden.de ...
Moin Sven!
SR> > That#s not true.
SR> This depends on the choosen definition of "not that many" (BTW: Above
SR> I'm talking about Linux, and in addition I don't count bootlegs.) I'd
Remember that a lot of people bought a Motif Runtime version to use the
first betas of Star Office 3.1! And some other distributions are sold with
CDE (alias Motif 1.2); for example DLD.
SR> (Here I have about twenty computers and one Motif licence. So a
SR> -dmotif package is useless on most computers.)
But we should offer the choice between Motif and lesstif!
SR> > If the maintainer doesn#t own a Motif license he can#t maintain the
SR> > package.
SR> Even when it works fine with lesstif? Again: Why?
If I would own a Motif license I wouldn#t use lesstif programs (memory,
problems).
SR> > I (and a lot of users) don#t have a problem to use commercial programs.
SR> Others supposedly do. For those I provided above reasoning.
It#s ok to move Motif programs to contrib.
cu, Marco
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