[Notion-devel] Fwd: Re: Questions Regarding the Ion(tm) License

[Jeff B. <jef...@gm...>]

Hi list,

I e-mailed Tuomo asking him a) to consider allowing at least Notion to 
use an unmodified LGPL license and b) to verify that the Notion name 
satisfies the current license. Below is his response. While he didn't 
bite re: vanilla LGPL, he did give his blessing re: the Notion name.

Hopefully this will be sufficient for Fedora. I'll update when I have more.

Regards,
Jeff


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Questions Regarding the Ion(tm) License
Date: 	Sat, 7 Dec 2013 10:15:16 +0000
From: 	Tuomo Valkonen <tu...@ik...>
To: 	Jeff Backus <jef...@gm...>



> On 06 Dec 2013, at 12:44, Jeff Backus <jef...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Dr. Valkonen,
>
> I know you are very busy, so I will be brief.
>
> I am writing to you on behalf of the Notion project, which is a fork of Ion3(tm) created in 2010. Since you have obviously moved onto bigger and better things and Ion3(tm) has not been active since 2009, we feel that the additional clauses added to the LGPL 2.1 license are no longer necessary to avoid confusion with regard to supporting unofficial versions - particularly since you have officially stated that you no longer offer support of any version. Therefore we ask that you grant permission to the Notion project to distribute as part of the Notion project any and all Ion(tm)-related material, including but not limited to primary and ancillary code and documentation, under the terms of the official LGPL version 2.1 as specified at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html.
>
> If you are not interested in releasing Ion(tm) under the official LGPL, either through Notion or other means, would you please at least verify that the Notion name sufficiently satisfies the Ion3(tm) license?

It does.

Tuomo

>
> An simple e-mailed response is sufficient for either request. I thank you in advance for your time.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Jeff
>
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