Ion3 license and possible removal

[Markus Weissmann]

Hi Pierre,

thanks for bringing this up here: Mr. Valkonen's license is absolutely  
unbearable.
As an alternative: Perhaps you can bring the port back to the last  
sane licensed version - don't know if this is useful and/or possible.
Either that or remove it please.


Regards,

-Markus

On Dec 13, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Pierre Queinnec wrote:

> [sorry for cross-posting]
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here are two mails T. Valkonen sent respectively to FreeBSD Ports  
> [1] and pkgsrc [2], warning them of a license violation on his  
> software, ion3 (x11/ion3).
>
> I'll be committing a removal of the port in 5 days if nobody wants  
> to step up and take ownership from me. Then again, I'm not sure this  
> serves the "community" best interest to keep it in the ports.  
> Apologies to the ion3 users that will be forced to compile it  
> themselves. I suggest you keep the Portfile in a private repository  
> should you know how to do this, so you can still benefit from  
> MacPorts build and upgrade cycles.
> -- Pierre
>
>
> [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-December/045475.html
> [2] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2007/10/28/0000.html

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