Re: [Notion-devel] what we're waiting for

[Marc H. <mar...@al...>]

Excerpts from M Rawash's message of Mon Apr 12 11:25:54 -0400 2010:
> - 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").

It seems a fork-and-rename is consistent with the intent, if not the
terms, of the modified LGPL.

It would seem a release under a modified LGPL with the rider that the
project or its forks may not be renamed to Ion, ion3, or anything which
would associate it with the Ion project, and may not contain anything
which refers users to the Ion project or Tuomo Valkonen for support, and
that this project and its forks may not change to any license which does
not contain, or invalidates, this rider would be consistent with the
goal of the license.

IANAL, but shouldn't this be doable in a reasonably straightforward way?
The point of the name change is that it and not referring back to ion is
what's required by the license.

Yes, it wouldn't be "pure GPL", but if the only additional restriction
is "can't rename this to Ion or ask Tuomo for tech support, must
preserve this restriction", is that going to relegate it to
scary/non-free? It's not restricting a distro from doing anything they'd
actually do anyway [not like the current ion license].