Ion3 license and possible removal

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sun Dec 16 07:43:22 PST 2007


Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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]

Seems like Debian did this and renamed ion3 to ParticleMan. At least I
found this blog entry [1] about it and the packages are already in some
trees. As an alternative of removing it, maybe we can just grab the
sources from them and keep it with another name?

Rainer

[1] http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/introducing-particleman.html


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