Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ion license

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Sun, 13 May 2007 00:13:57 +0200
Matti Bickel <mabi@gentoo.org> wrote:
> recently, there's been some worries about the changes and new
> requirements the ion upstream, tuomov, put forth in a new LICENSE for
> ion-3. It's main additions are a "timely response clause", which
> requires us to get the same keywords for a newly released version as
> the previous had within 28 days. Another point is the "no patches"
> clause, which prohibits distributions from carrying a "significantly
> modified" ion-3 release under the ion name.

Supporting this would be a huge policy violation, and not so merely as
a technicality. I suggest simply removing ion support from the main
tree, and sticking it in an overlay that comes with a big warning
telling users that they cannot expect any level of QA for those
packages.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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