Re: [Notion-devel] A git repo with ion/notion sources

[Joshua T. <egg...@gm...>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:04:32AM +0300, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> I personally think it is not worth to try to grow notion in a tainted
> soil. Even if FSF replies that it is safe to use the latest codebase
> after name change, it has yet to be proven in a court. And even then the
> law depends on country.

Can I register my bystander's support of at least exploring this option? I am
unlikely ever to become an active ion/notion developer, and perhaps that
changes the weight of my vote, but put me in the "interested user" category as
one who over the years has tried without success to find an ion alternative.
My particular concern, in fact, is not the licensing specifically, but is
rather knowing that the project will remain active and easily available in
common BSD or Linux distributions. An unfamiliar license makes both of those
more difficult.

That said, I don't honestly have any idea what differences there are between
the latest code and this version, so I have no idea how much of a regression
is involved if the project chooses this earlier codebase. Nor do I know how
likely it is that, as the community begins modifying this earlier codebase,
they would avoid adding code "tainted" by later ion versions. But those
problems (and probably others I haven't thought of) need to be part of the
discussion.

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