On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:07:12PM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2007-11-16 11:40 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > I have a suggestion for you; why don't you rename your software to > > something else instead of ion, it'll make all the evil people using > > what-used-to-be-called-ion go away. Problem solved. > > The whole point is that Ion is name that is associated with me, and > the distros are tarnishing it by distributing significantly modified > and out-dated software as Ion, without prominently mentioning this.
You knew that when you distributed the original under its original license. If you didn't that is your fault. Don't blame me for using free software under a relatively well understood license. > > I'm sure OpenBSD would like very much for me to distribute some > ancient and significantly modified release as the latest. Except, > of course, I don't have the resources for such to have much of an > effect, unlike The Party, i.e. the big distros. The only thing I'd like (I am not cocky enough to pretend I know what the entire OpenBSD community wants) is for the software to get its original license back so that it could be maintained like it was. Oh and FWIW, OpenBSD left ion almost identical to your specifications. The only thing that was modified was to have the large menu when pressing F12. The rest was 100% identical to what you did. OpenBSD stayed within the spirit of your developments however you chose to sever the ties to the OpenBSD project the second you changed that license. OpenBSD fulfilled all legal requirements as per your original license. > > -- > Tuomo >
