On 2007-05-10, Matti Bickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simple question: your license states that anything distributed as "ion" > must not be altered in any way.
That is not true. Minor changes can be done, as explained in the license file. > (adding ion-lock) What's that? Some script that finds a working screen locking program? (I've actually thought of having something like that in the standard setup, and ion-terminal too, to move that out of the config files. But I never got around to that, and now it's frozen.) That kind of changes are permitted, because not all platforms can be expected to have the same programs available. > (--as-needed, paths). That flag is seriously broken, BTW. --- Other unapproved patches applied by the building scripts are also ok, as long as the user must explicitly request them for (catch-all USE=all etc. must not apply them), and is highly aware that there's no point in coming crying to me after that. Really, the extra license terms should be no problem to any reasonable distributor that primarily wants to provide Ion as I meant it to be within the constraints of the platform, and does a reasonable effort of keeping it up to date. The terms are there remind to that shit flows upstream -- until the reservoir breaks. -- Tuomo
