Re: Ion3 port is obsolete

        On 2007-11-16, Stuart Henderson <stu@...> wrote:
        > The version in tree is before the license change; the additional
        > restrictions on the newer code are a problem.

        They are not a problem for reasonable distributors that care to pay
        a bit of respect towards the author's time and work. Of course, reason,
        literacy, and respect towards authors and persoanl choice are something
        seldom seen among the FOSS herd, rather replacing them with blind ideology
        and monocultures. It is a popular myth that you have to provide the new
        release within 28 days, and although I encourage that, it is not true
        and what the license says. Alternatively, you must after those 28 days
        prominently notify the user installing the software that the release
        is likely to be antiquated, not representative of the project's present
        state, and the author will not provide support for it. Not much asked,
        in my opinion. You could even base this notification on a dead-man
        switch, which would be quite nice even generally, considering package
        maintainers often going MIA.

Boy, that's a lot of "must"'s in that paragraph.  Sure sounds free.

It's free, but you MUST <list of things>

What's great about me jumping into this conversation is that you
talking about respect of the author is so interesting.  I don't use
your software, but I am sure you use OpenSSH.  And now you are telling
me what I (who distribute OpenBSD with all the things) must do.

You say "Not much asked, in my opinion."

But you did not ask.  You demanded, and everyone can see that.