On Sun, 13 May 2007 00:13:57 +0200 Matti Bickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > recently, there's been some worries about the changes and new > requirements the ion upstream, tuomov, put forth in a new LICENSE for > ion-3. It's main additions are a "timely response clause", which > requires us to get the same keywords for a newly released version as > the previous had within 28 days. Another point is the "no patches" > clause, which prohibits distributions from carrying a "significantly > modified" ion-3 release under the ion name.
Supporting this would be a huge policy violation, and not so merely as a technicality. I suggest simply removing ion support from the main tree, and sticking it in an overlay that comes with a big warning telling users that they cannot expect any level of QA for those packages. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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