[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-PSC] OpenMotif

[Hamish]

Brad Douglas wrote:
> 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.


Hamish