Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:51:45 +0200 From: Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ion-general@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20090930195145.GH1872@obspm.fr> In-Reply-To: <20090930161915.GA18014@lonesome.com> References: <20090930100658.GA99090@obspm.fr> <20090930110508.GA50565@hades.panopticon> <20090930161915.GA18014@lonesome.com>
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Le 30/09/2009 à 11:19:15-0500, Mark Linimon a écrit > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:05:08PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > > I've seen the license change too. I'm working on the port currently. > > As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the > developer threatened us with a lawsuit. This repeats what he has > previously done to several other BSDs and several Linux distributions. > This is why ports for his software are no longer available for these > platforms. > > Whether the license has changed or not, the fact that the author feels > the desire to use lawsuits to achieve his goals makes his software too > much of a liability for FreeBSD to redistribute. > Well I think you decision is already take so I'm not going argue with you. Just little information : As I understand Tuomo Valkonen as stop the developement of this software. Here is what he say : «I have recently given up on the failure known as Linux, and switched to Windows. As I thus probably won't be working much on Ion3 anymore, and since it seems very stable anyway, the 28-day clause in the license should serve little practical purpose anymore. It has therefore been lifted.» --> http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/news.html Anyway if you don't want that ports I can understand easily why. That make me sad, but thanks to Dmitry I can use ion-3 and because ion-3 not going to evolve I'm going to keep that «pseudo-ports» in some «safe»-place. Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: Mer 30 sep 2009 21:51:13 CEST
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