[Notion-devel] what we're waiting for

[M R. <mr...@gm...>]

hi everybody, thought I'd give you a little update of what's going on.
Ole Brønner and I spoke earlier about our legal situation (with regard
to Tuomo's license); he's in favour of getting Tuomo's blessing to fork
the latest Ion3(plus) release, while i'm in favour of forking an earlier
version of Ion that didn't include Tuomo's terms. Ole has contacted
Tuomo and we have set a deadline ("a couple of days") for a response,
and since it's very likely that Tuomo won't respond, i think we should
be aware of our other options while we wait, and here they are:

- forking Ion while keeping Tuomo's license, this, of course, will
render the fork 'non-free', and infringe on our own right to license any
future work under a different license.

- fork Ion and change the license (possibly to GPL), this will leave us
vulnerable to Tuomo's hostility (assuming he is indeed hostile), since
it's basically 'illegal' in light of Tuomo's additional terms (which,
according to Tuomo, "take precedence over the LGPL").

- fork an earlier version of Ion that didn't include Tuomo's additional
terms (or one that had a loophole in it), this means a lot of extra
work, when many people would like to see us moving on (start adding new
features, rather than going back and fix/add old ones).


as you can see, all our options are lacking in one way or another, so
it'd indeed be good if we could get Tuomo's blessing, but i think we
should remain realistic going forward; so if you have other
ideas/opinions, please, do tell.

regards,
M Rawash