Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:19:00AM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:25:35PM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > >> > >> You can fork the code, rename it, whatever, but you can NOT change > >> the license w

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-08 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:25:35PM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> >> You can fork the code, rename it, whatever, but you can NOT change >> the license without explicit permission from the original copyright >> owner. That would be lega

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:25:35PM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > > You can fork the code, rename it, whathever, but you can NOT change > the license without explicit permission from the original copyright > owner. That would be legally considered theft! Incorrect. It would be legally c

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-07 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
2009/10/6 Renato Botelho : > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: >> * Mark Linimon (lini...@lonesome.com) wrote: >> >>> The author orginally contacted us with a legal threat because we were >>> not in compliance with the 28-day clause.  A long, acrimonious disucssion >>> ensue

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-06 Thread Renato Botelho
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > * Mark Linimon (lini...@lonesome.com) wrote: > >> The author orginally contacted us with a legal threat because we were >> not in compliance with the 28-day clause.  A long, acrimonious disucssion >> ensued.  In that discussion, the author

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-02 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 02 Oct 2009 at 15:44:07 PDT Russell Jackson wrote: I think most of us ion refugees have moved on to xmonad. While it isn't quite the same as ion, the xmonad developers don't have any philosophical issues supporting xft and xinerama. The only gripe I have is the blasted Haskel config file

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-02 Thread Russell Jackson
Albert Shih wrote: > Hi all > > I'm trying to compile > > http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/download.html > > on my FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and didn't success > > I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone > have the patch file for the system.mk ? > > Long time a

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-02 Thread Erwin Lansing
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 04:44:01PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:32:31PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > > Do you honestly think the probability of Tuomo suing us is higher of, > > say, me suing, well, us? > > Yes. That is exactly what I am saying. And I believe readin

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:32:31PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > Do you honestly think the probability of Tuomo suing us is higher of, > say, me suing, well, us? Yes. That is exactly what I am saying. And I believe reading the entire thread when this first came up supports my claim. mcl

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-02 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Mark Linimon (lini...@lonesome.com) wrote: > The author orginally contacted us with a legal threat because we were > not in compliance with the 28-day clause. A long, acrimonious disucssion > ensued. In that discussion, the author was asked "if we agree to meet > that condition going forward,

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:58:23PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > No need to, if it works fine and there are no objections for it, > I'll commit it to the tree. I insist that you not to commit it to the tree. See my other post. mcl ___ freebsd-questi

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 03:45:46PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > Now it's LGPLv2.1 with the only restriction that this software may not > be significantly changed while being distributed as ion3. I hate to replay this whole issue from the beginning, but apparently there is no other way. The au

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-01 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Erwin Lansing (er...@freebsd.org) wrote: > The license forbids this software to be in the tree, so with my portmgr > hat on I ask you not to add this to the tree again. It no longer does: http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/ion-general/2009-September/002520.html Now it's LGPLv2.1 with the only

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-01 Thread Erwin Lansing
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 03:14:17PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > * Mark Linimon (lini...@lonesome.com) wrote: > > > As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the > > developer threatened us with a lawsuit. This repeats what he has > > previously done to several other BS

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-01 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Mark Linimon (lini...@lonesome.com) wrote: > As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the > developer threatened us with a lawsuit. This repeats what he has > previously done to several other BSDs and several Linux distributions. > This is why ports for his software are

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-01 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote: > Thanks for Dmitry for this ports. I'm going to keep this thing somewhere No need to, if it works fine and there are no objections for it, I'll commit it to the tree. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amd...

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Albert Shih
Le 30/09/2009 à 11:19:15-0500, Mark Linimon a écrit > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:05:08PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > > I've seen the license change too. I'm working on the port currently. > > As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the > developer threatened us with

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Albert Shih
Le 30/09/2009 à 18:58:43+0200, Albert Shih a écrit > Le 30/09/2009 à 17:27:46+0200, Gary Jennejohn a écrit > > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:59:25 +0200 > > Albert Shih wrote: > > > > > Le 30/09/2009 __ 18:45:35+0400, Dmitry Marakasov a __crit > > > > * Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote: > > >

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Albert Shih
Le 30/09/2009 à 17:27:46+0200, Gary Jennejohn a écrit > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:59:25 +0200 > Albert Shih wrote: > > > Le 30/09/2009 __ 18:45:35+0400, Dmitry Marakasov a __crit > > > * Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote: > > > > > > > I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion w

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:05:08PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > I've seen the license change too. I'm working on the port currently. As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the developer threatened us with a lawsuit. This repeats what he has previously done to severa

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:59:25 +0200 Albert Shih wrote: > Le 30/09/2009 __ 18:45:35+0400, Dmitry Marakasov a __crit > > * Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote: > > > > > I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone > > > have the patch file for the system.mk ? >

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Albert Shih
Le 30/09/2009 à 18:45:35+0400, Dmitry Marakasov a écrit > * Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote: > > > I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone > > have the patch file for the system.mk ? > > Please try this: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/ion3.tar

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote: > I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone > have the patch file for the system.mk ? Please try this: http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/ion3.tar It builds file in tinderbox, but I haven't tested how it works yet. --

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote: > I'm trying to compile > > http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/download.html > > on my FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and didn't success > > I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone > have the patch file for the system.mk ? >

ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I'm trying to compile http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/download.html on my FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and didn't success I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone have the patch file for the system.mk ? Long time ago ion ports was kick off from the ports