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

[Ole J. B. <ole...@ya...>]

Sorry for a bit late reply.

Tuomo actually replied already late sunday. His answer was mostly inconclusive for the questions regarding names, renaming, and his future involvement/development on ion. He confirmed what we already assumed/knew though: The license can't be changed to regular LGPL in a renamed fork.

He did say that he sometimes have thought about letting the license go though.

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:25:54 +0200, M Rawash <mr...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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