Re: New Ion3 licence On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 19:27 +0100, I wrote:
> The author of Ion3 (which I maintain) is proposing to introduce a new
> licence[1] which includes the clause:
> 
> >   3. Redistributions of this software accessible plainly with a name
> >      of this software ("ion", "ion3", etc.), must provide the latest
> >      release with a reasonable delay from its release (normally 28 days).
> >      Older releases may be distributed, if the full version, or some 
> >      other explicit indicator, such as the word "ancient", is part of 
> >      the name that the package is accessed with, or if this identifier
> >      is completely unrelated to a name of this software.

He's now proposing to stick with LGPL but to use a restrictive trademark
licence[1].  I think this puts us in pretty much the same position as
with Firefox/Iceweasel, as I expected[2].  (However, there is already an
icewm, so I can't take quite the same approach. :-))

[1] http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/ion-general/2007-April/001967.html
[2] http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/ion-general/2007-March/001827.html

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
