Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

Right, i missed your clarifications on the bottom. Sorry for that.

> > (adding ion-lock) 
> 
> What's that? 

From what i can tell from the patches, it just calls xscreensaver if
existant, else uses xlock.

> > (--as-needed, paths).
> 
> That flag is seriously broken, BTW.

I don't personally use it, to begin with. But there have been users
inquiring about, providing patches, and as it's really just a one line
change, i added it for their convience. Might make that conditional on
--as-needed being in LDFLAGS, though.

> 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.

_rc will include a postinstall message that tells users to reproduce
with a vanilla build before reporting bugs upstream plus a note that
encourages users to go file the bugs at bugs.gentoo.org first.
-- 
Regards, Matti Bickel
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