Openmotif isn't available in RHEL-7. Motif is available. Has anyone evaluated the implications?

Question

Up until now, we have used RHEL-6 and OpenMotif was available in the default yum repo. In RHEL-7, I now see that "motif", which I believe is not open source, is available in the yum repo. Just curious to know what others have done relative to licensing. Have you purposely stayed with openMotif? Or picked up the Static Libraries?

Solution

Motif is licensed under the LGPL v2.1 according to their website and the source is available on sourceforge. In both Fedora and RHEL 7, the motif package obsoletes the openmotif package, so it's basically just a package rename. There is also a virtual provides so running yum install openmotif will resolve to the motif package.

Comments

[Kurt Miller]

Yes it does resolve to motif. I was wondering as he said the implications... For instance, even if motif is installed, a software needing openmotif will look for it but not motif right ?