The author of Ion3 (which I maintain) is proposing to introduce a new licence[1] which includes the clause:
> 3. Redistributions of this software accessible plainly with a name > of this software ("ion", "ion3", etc.), must provide the latest > release with a reasonable delay from its release (normally 28 days). > Older releases may be distributed, if the full version, or some > other explicit indicator, such as the word "ancient", is part of > the name that the package is accessed with, or if this identifier > is completely unrelated to a name of this software. He expanded on what "accessible" means: > If the software can be installed with `$pkgtool install ion3` (resp. > `$pkgtool install ion`), where `$pkgtool install` stands for the install > feature of the distribution's package management tool, this should > always install the latest standard release of Ion3 (resp. in the whole > Ion project). The action `$pkgtool install ion-3ds-20070318` may, > however, at any date install this particular marked release. Likewise > `$pkgtool ion-with-tonnes-of-unsupported-pathces` may install any > altered version. While I doubt I would have trouble updating the package within 28 days of an upstream release, I doubt that Debian would like to commit to that, and certainly the package would have to remain unreleased. So I think this would require a package name change. Any other opinion on that? Ben. [1] http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/ion-general/2007-April/001959.html -- Ben Hutchings If God had intended Man to program, we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.
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