Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:24:27 -0300 From: Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com> To: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> Cc: Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Erwin Lansing <erwin@freebsd.org>, ion-general@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD Message-ID: <747dc8f30910061024h5346b25evd27369955f9d6768@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091002133231.GA17567@hades.panopticon> References: <20090930100658.GA99090@obspm.fr> <20090930110508.GA50565@hades.panopticon> <20090930161915.GA18014@lonesome.com> <20091001111417.GF50565@hades.panopticon> <20091001112323.GA26407@droso.net> <20091001114546.GH50565@hades.panopticon> <20091001213656.GA14925@lonesome.com> <20091002133231.GA17567@hades.panopticon>
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> wrote: > * Mark Linimon (linimon@lonesome.com) wrote: > >> The author orginally contacted us with a legal threat because we were >> not in compliance with the 28-day clause. =9AA long, acrimonious disucss= ion >> ensued. =9AIn that discussion, the author was asked "if we agree to meet >> that condition going forward, would you guarantee that this would remove >> any further legal threat?" and he said yes ... >> >> for now. >> >> But that he reserved the right to change his mind later. >> >> *depending* on what we did or did not do in the future -- not just in >> adhering to the *existing clauses* like the "significant" clause or >> "renamed" clause -- both of which he mentioned would be part of any >> lawsuit. >> >> Legally indefensible? =9AOf course. =9AWould that prevent a lawsuit bein= g >> filed? =9ANo. =9AAnyone can sue anyone for anything. > > Well, if you insist I of course won't commit it. But the whole thing > disappoints me greately, cause I was pretty sure at least FreeBSD > developers won't be affected by a mere FUD. Do you honestly think > the probability of Tuomo suing us is higher of, say, me suing, well, > us? =9AAnd that anything will change by us not providing a port we > have absolutely totally utterly 100% right to provide? =9AThat is > just silly. > > The port from now on is available here (removed from people.freebsd.org): > http://mirror.amdmi3.ru/ports/ion3-20090110.port.tar You can start a fork of it, change its name, its license, and keep it as a separate project... people will use the same software with another name. Everybody will be happy and we won't have a Tuomo's software inside ports collection again. --=20 Renato Botelho
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