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["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

On 12:43:09 2007-09-09 Remko van der Vossen <wich AT stack.nl> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Since a couple of releases, ion has a new license (attached below) which
> basically says that if we are to name the program ion, then the version
> in our grimoire should be updated to the newest release within a month
> of availability. At the moment we still have a version of ion before
> this LICENSE change in our grimoires, but the source tarball is not
> available anymore, as the author only provides the tarball of the latest
> release.  
> 
> The reasoning, as I understand it, for this new license is that the
> author wants to make sure that users always use the latest release and
> do not report bugs or otherwise request support for older releases that
> have already been fixed or changed by a newer release.
> 
> First question is; can we live up to this requirement? To answer this
> question we first need to establish whether this requirement would
> pertain to the stable grimoire, or test grimoire. As for actually
> updating the spell, I think I can take care of this, I am on the ion
> mailing list and thus get a notice whenever a new version is released,
> though there might of course be some delay in updating the spell if I
> were to be on vaction or some such.
> 

No the first question is is this even Free by FSF standards which we
follow...

If not it belongs in z-rejected

> 
> Any thoughts on how to approach this? The author does not keep old
> releases available, so unless you have the tarball in spool the current
> spell is useless.
> 

Yeah contact: licensing AT fsf.org with the license and ask them how if at all
this affects this softwares Free status...




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