On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:41:34AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 07:28 -0400, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the release you are pointing to comes with a license change
> > that affects debian.  The following was added as a preamble tothe LGPL:
> <snip>
> > This license chanage has the effect that debian will have to distribute
> > ion under a name not containing "ion" (afaict).
> 
> Yes, it does.  There's a poll at
> <http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=69522>.
> 

The poll contains several options that still contain the word "ion".  I
think that we should avoid any name that contains the string "ion" as
the upstream developer has not made it particularly clear what he would
consider a violation.  See here:

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/tur-users/2007-April/004640.html

Thanks,

stew

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