Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-17 Thread Siju George
On Nov 16, 2007 11:31 PM, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-11-16, Craig Brozefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yah, sucks to write free software, perhaps you should just stop. Indeed, Ion3 is my final gift to the FOSS herd, that it can never hope to repay. After that any software

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-17 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-17 21:38 +0530, Siju George wrote: Come on Tuomo. Don't get so upset of not being paid back for your efforts in some way or the other. I don't expect to get paid back, but I'd rather people not fuck with me after all my efforts, as the distros do. Let me ask you this. How many

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-17 Thread Siju George
On Nov 16, 2007 11:37 PM, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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.

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-17 Thread Siju George
On Nov 17, 2007 9:54 PM, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-11-17 21:38 +0530, Siju George wrote: Come on Tuomo. Don't get so upset of not being paid back for your efforts in some way or the other. I don't expect to get paid back, but I'd rather people not fuck with me after

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-17 Thread Jason Dixon
On Nov 17, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 16, 2007 11:37 PM, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-17 Thread Nikolay Sturm
* Siju George [2007-11-17]: If OpenBSD changed its license and put in restrictions you would have no other way but to distribute the old one. See it is not the OpenBSD people who tarnishes you. It is your own license restrictions that are working against you. Could you move this stupid

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-17 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-17 22:10 +0530, Siju George wrote: See it is not the OpenBSD people who tarnishes you. It is your own license restrictions that are working against you. The extra terms in the license are there for a reason, you know. Distros far bigger than OpenBSD fucking with you by distributing

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
Please immediately take this to your own list, instead of spamming this list further. On 2007-11-17 22:10 +0530, Siju George wrote: See it is not the OpenBSD people who tarnishes you. It is your own license restrictions that are working against you. The extra terms in the license are

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-17 Thread Siju George
On Nov 17, 2007 10:38 PM, Nikolay Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Siju George [2007-11-17]: If OpenBSD changed its license and put in restrictions you would have no other way but to distribute the old one. See it is not the OpenBSD people who tarnishes you. It is your own license

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-17 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-17 12:03 -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: I don't think you really care though. You sound like a very bitter person. I tend to like bitter. And stout and other varieties too. -- Tuomo

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 2007-11-16, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version in tree is before the license change; the additional restrictions on the newer code are a problem. They are not a problem for reasonable distributors that care to pay a bit of respect

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-16, Craig Brozefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yah, sucks to write free software, perhaps you should just stop. Indeed, Ion3 is my final gift to the FOSS herd, that it can never hope to repay. After that any software I might create, will come without any license at all (the djb way).

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-16, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version in tree is before the license change; the additional restrictions on the newer code are a problem. They are not a problem for reasonable distributors that care to pay a bit of respect towards the author's time and work. Of

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/16 17:08, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: The Ion3 port at [1] is obsolete and should be upgraded, or at least users be made very sure that they don't come asking me for help. It is also misnamed: there's no such things as Ion 20070318. It's Ion3, __development snapshot__ 20070318. Read that

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:26:05PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-11-16, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version in tree is before the license change; the additional restrictions on the newer code are a problem. They are not a problem for reasonable distributors that

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Antti Harri
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Marco Peereboom wrote: [snipped] Meanwhile I'll use Ion3, __development snapshot__ 20070318 until something that suits me better comes along. Wasn't there a fork already that was based on the last version with GPL? -- Antti Harri

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-16 11:05 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: Package is no longer maintained due to your license change. So remove it. Speaks loads of the so-called quality of the OpenBSD distribution when it distributes ancient unmaintained software with various bugs. -- Tuomo

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Craig Brozefsky
Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2007-11-16 10:13 -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: Boy, that's a lot of must's in that paragraph. Sure sounds free. Typically free means: free for the herd to do anything, including fucking the author in the arse. Straitjacket and pain in the arse

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-16 10:13 -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: Boy, that's a lot of must's in that paragraph. Sure sounds free. Typically free means: free for the herd to do anything, including fucking the author in the arse. Straitjacket and pain in the arse for the author who has to bear with the herd.

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
Licenses can not be retro actively imposed. This package was done before your license change and therefore it'll remain just like it is. I am a pre-ion user and can't even begin to tell you how retarded your new license is. You got what you wanted, you rendered your open source developments

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-16 20:13 +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: but windows does not need a window manager... Indeed, Ion is my only remaining umblical cord to FOSS crap, and no thanks to the FOSS herd, but vestiges of software from the age before the FOSS craze, from the age before the WIMP desktop model became

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
Who is talking about using windows apps? I just said I ported it work in cygwin so that I don't have to use windows at work. GNU userland beats even MS cli commands. On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:27:37PM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-11-16 13:45 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: Man you are

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-16 13:45 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: Man you are in luck. I happened to make ion work on windows to make it more bearable. It's on my site; enjoy! Yeah, right. Actually, with the compositing manager now in Vista (which they call the Desktop Window manager, heh), it might be

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
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.

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-16 12:25 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: 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. No, I just didn't think back then about the

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Marc Balmer
Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-11-16, Craig Brozefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yah, sucks to write free software, perhaps you should just stop. Indeed, Ion3 is my final gift to the FOSS herd, that it can never hope to repay. After that any software I might create, will come without any license

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
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

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
It works fine as it is and it won't be removed. You should have thought of the legal repercussions of writing free software. You gave it away back then so you can't take it back. As they say, you can't put the shit back in the horse. You can cry us a river all day long using strong profanity.

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 06:01:12PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-11-16, Craig Brozefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yah, sucks to write free software, perhaps you should just stop. Indeed, Ion3 is my final gift to the FOSS herd, that it can never hope to repay. After that any software I

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-16 13:38 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: You are naive. The open source community is harsh and does not tend to cater to someone's feelings. Kind of like the real world. In the harsh real world the companies sue you for distributing their software. I might just as well adopt their

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Marc Balmer
Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-11-16 12:25 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: 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. No, I just didn't think

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:06:21PM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-11-16 12:25 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: 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

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:20:34PM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-11-16 20:13 +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: but windows does not need a window manager... Indeed, Ion is my only remaining umblical cord to FOSS crap, and no thanks to the FOSS herd, but vestiges of software from the age

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:23:02PM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-11-16 13:38 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: You are naive. The open source community is harsh and does not tend to cater to someone's feelings. Kind of like the real world. In the harsh real world the companies sue you

Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

2007-11-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-11-16, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why are you acting all surprised? What surprise? I said I used to have some hope in FOSS ages ago, but gradually it has worn off, to the extent that I no longer care for the cause at all. And you say: go away or nothing at all. Wow,