Ion3 license and possible removal

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-12-14 15:26:12 +0100, Markus Weissmann wrote:
> 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.

Or change the name of the software. These restrictions apply only
in this case:

[quoted from the LICENSE file]
  If the name Ion(tm) or other names that can be associated with the Ion
  project are used to distribute this software, then:
[/quoted]

FYI, Firefox has been renamed as Iceweasel under Debian for similar
reasons (though Mozilla put fewer restrictions on the use of the name
"Firefox").

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