Re: [Notion-devel] One question

[Juri H. <ju...@fa...>]

Domingo Gomez schrieb:
> I agree. That's what Tuomo has always said, as long as you don't use
> ion, it's just GPL.
>
Maybe we should contact a distribution Debian, Ubuntu, whatever to make 
the legal issue clear. I am sure they are more experienced with that and 
probably have an internal lawyer for things like this.

> One related thing, distro inclusion is not what the users right now want.
> Everybody here has installed from source and I don't think any common 
> ubuntu
> user want to install it anyway.
>
> > Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:01:55 +0200
> > From: eb...@dr...
> > To: not...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [Notion-devel] One question
> >
> > I'm now lazy to check the license, but AFAIK, the situation will be
> > totally different. The license prohibits the distributions to patch
> > it by themselves and name it /ion/. Now when the project's name will
> > not be /ion/, is there any problem with the license? Debian includes
> > not only GPL-license, but also BSD-license, Apache-license,
> > Perl-license, and so on. I think that the license is also "free" as long
> > as the project's name is not /ion/. Please correct me if I understand
> > it bad.