Re: [+] Re: Remove x11/ion

[Marco Peereboom]

Anion sounds great to me.  Please don't kill the port over a name.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:55:21PM +0200, Pedro Martelletto wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:17:15PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > Well, the licence is still LGPL, right?
> > Only the use of the name "Ion*" is restricted in a very weird way.
> > 
> > Can't you get in touch with the author to see if this can be fixed in some 
> > way, something ala firefox?
> 
> What we could do is to distribute the software under a different name,
> like 'anion'. This way we would not be affected by the restrictions.
> 
> I don't believe talking to the author would help. Besides the fact that
> he was quite firm in his decision, I'm not willing to do that myself.
> 
> -p.
>