Hi all, I don't know how many of you still care for the motif widgetset, but due to the way I got involved in Debian, I have kept a small eye on it. Recently ICS [1] release a new version of openmotif, and this time they stuck a LGPL license on it. I think this is good news, as it means that we can get rid of a less optimal situation where we were using a less than complete open source replacement, lesstif, to build programs needing the motif widgetset. The last couple of years lesstif has annoyed users quite a lot because the elementary copy/paste functionality was not properly implemented [2]. Of course, we still have to release wheezy, but may I (also with my lesstif co-maintainer hat on) already suggest to get rid of lesstif for jessie. What do you think? Paul PS: how nice that the latest update to the policy already removed the lesstif/openmotif text. [1] http://motif.ics.com/motif [2] http://lesstif.sourceforge.net/#help
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