[Notion-devel] Fwd: Getting notion out of Debian/non-free

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Dima Kogan <no...@di...>wrote:

> First off, in 2009 Tuomo updated the license, removing the 28-day
>  clause. Notion's LICENSE file did not have this change. I'm attaching a
> patch with the update. The mailing list post is
>
>
> https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/ion-general/2009-September/001730.html[1]
>

Interesting, thanks for the heads-up.

Generally it is of course very strange to 'patch in' a license change into
a software - normally you can't legally do that. However in this case Tuomo
clearly expresses his intent and GPG-signed the updated license, to it
seems justified here. Unless someone objects, I'll probably apply the patch.



> [[the Ion license]] clearly states that if 'Ion(tm)' can be associated
> with the
>
> software, then the software must be renamed (i.e. an association comes
> from the name). I think a strong case can be made that this is
> DFSG-compliant. Ben's personal communication with Tuomo seems to
> indicate a stronger condition than the text, but the text is what
> defines the license, as you say.
>

Exactly, good summary.


> When did you bring this up with debian-legal? Possibly we should bring
> this up again. I can do this, if you like. Doing lots of debian things
> these days...


I'll try and look it up.


Arnout