Ion3 license and possible removal

[Pierre Queinnec]

Interesting idea; this brings yet another possibility. The only problem 
I could see with that strategy is yet-another-license-change forbidding 
derivative works.

If PortMgr thinks this is the way it should be handled, we could do the 
rename in the Debian fashion, but personally I won't be maintaining it 
in the future. I've stopped using it actively and only maintained it to 
help.

The other proposal was to keep the last good version but this was a 
release candidate and I seem to remember a nasty problem with the window 
naming.

To sum it up, I'll commit a port with a message explaining what 
happened, just like Ryan suggested. If someone is interested in reviving 
the port as 'particleman', feel free to do so.
-- Pierre


Rainer Müller wrote:
> 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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