Re: [Notion-devel] the agenda

[Olof J. <zi...@et...>]

On 2010-04-09 14:24, Juri Hamburg wrote:
> Well, you're right, in the license of ion-3-20090110 only the executables
> are mentioned:
> 
>   "Versions for which the above conditions are not satisfied, must be
>   renamed so that they can not be associated with the Ion project, their
>   executables must be given names that do not conflict with the copyright
>   holder's version, and neither the copyright holder nor the Ion project
>   may be referred to for support."
> 
> I'm still quite sure that I have read something about removing
> "functional" occurrences of ion. Either ion's mailing list or maybe even
> IRC? Once in #ion Tuomo commented some ion-fork discussion with something
> like "have fun removing all ion references". Unfortunately I do not have
> that in my logs. I guess you could find that part if you grep for
> "reference" and "suffer freetards". :)

Well, yes, i recognize that quote :-), but 

    1) you publish vanilla ion sources, 
    2) remove references to the ion trademark (were applicable),
    3) introduce your own changes.

This is halal.

> However, due to license, seems like we just have to change the executable
> name. What is actually an executable in that context? Just the one to start
> the window manager? 

IANAL, but i'm pretty certain that at least all user visable occurances of
ion must be replaced if you want to fork. The license text does not limit 
the renames to the executable. Also, the ion3 maintainer in debian noted
that Tuomo has insisted on even paths must not include the name ion[0].

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0: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544848#20
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