Ion3 license and possible removal

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Dec 13 12:35:21 PST 2007


Pierre Queinnec wrote:
> 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.

For me this sounds like a removal request... What is the problem with a
version more than 28 days old? In my personal opinion ion3 with this
license addition does not qualify as free software any more. Definitely
remove it.

Rainer


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