Re: New Ion3 licence On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:26 -0400, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 27/04/07, Ben Hutchings  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).
> 
> 
> Doesn't this fail the desert island test (FAQ #9 below) and hence the DFSG?
> 
>      http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html

No, there is no compulsion to distribute.

> A lot of developers seem to want to include such clauses about the
> "official" software being distributed timely and only from one source,
> usually with good intentions, but fail to see the unfavourable
> rammifications of their choice. I would recommend to your upstream
> source to strongly reconsider including these clauses.

Oh, he knows what he's doing.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If God had intended Man to program,
we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.
