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From: Alistair Bush <ali_bush@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:03:49
Message-Id: 200912162254.31658.ali_bush@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion by "Rémi Cardona"
1 > Le 15/12/2009 08:09, Ulrich Mueller a écrit :
2 > >>>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote:
3 > >>
4 > >> On the other hand this may be something for treecleaners? A package
5 > >> that has not been bumped for 7 years? With at least three releases
6 > >> since, and a bumprequest open for at least one year? A link to a
7 > >> webside that does not exist?
8 > >
9 > > And both its sucessors x11-wm/ion2 and x11-wm/ion3 already punted two
10 > > years ago.
11 > >
12 > > Wasn't there some licence issue with this package, too?
13 >
14 > That was with ion3 IIRC. Something about the author changing the license
15 > from GPL to "don't patch ion3 ever without telling me about it and
16 > showing me your patches so I can approve them".
17 >
18 > Or something similar, wikipedia/google might know more than me.
19 >
20 > As far as the original ion is concerned, the masking seems perfectly in
21 > order. If someone wants it, that person can step up and do the work
22 > (directly or via proxy).
23 >
24 > Cheers,
25 >
26 > Rémi
27 >
28
29 http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
30
31 What an angry angry man.
32
33 Drop it!!