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Re: [Notion-devel] Licensing situation
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From: Arnout E. <no...@bz...> - 2011-11-13 09:14:47
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Hi, Thanks for pointing this out, indeed this allows us to drop the 28-days-clause, which is nice. I'm contacting some of our contributors since the fork, if they're OK with it (which I expect :) ) I'll make the license change. Kind regards, Arnout On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 08:28:36PM +0100, Philipp Hartwig wrote: > Here's a copy of Tuomo's message with the relaxed license for your > convenience and future reference. The license has a valid GPG signature > that can be verified with the key with the ID C004251B which is available > on the GPG keyservers and can be imported with $ gpg --recv-keys C004251B > Use for example :set pgp_auto_decode or <check-traditional-pgp> (bound to > ESC P by default) in mutt to verify the signature. It seems as if this > message was good enough to update the license of the latest Ion3 package in > Debian. > > Regards, > Philipp > > > > >From tuomov at iki.fi Wed Sep 2 19:56:56 2009 > From: tuomov at iki.fi (Tuomo Valkonen) > Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 20:56:56 +0300 > Subject: License update > Message-ID: <200...@mo...> > > Since I probably won't be working on Ion much, and Ion3 > seems very stable anyway, here's an updated license file > without the 28-day clause. 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