Hi,

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 04:36:47PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Philip,
> 
> See this email on NetBSD's tech-pkg below.

Wow, that was a 'nice' mail.

I for myself would say: Remove all traces of ion from pkgsrc.

E.g.: http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/download.html

: Unofficial/distribution-specific packages
: 
: Various distributions carry packages that claim to be Ion. These are too
: often out-dated without prominently mentioning this fact, and contain
: unapproved modifications that void any support. Beware of such packages,
: and please report them, because these people are lying to you, and are
: infringing on the Ion, Ion3, etc. trademarks.

Thats a wording which is bejoind what I expect from people who use a LGPL
license schema, which in this case is a modified one.
The other content on that webpage doesn't help to make me feel better.

> The ion-3rc-20070902/LICENSE makes it not worth maintaining this software 
> in pkgsrc.

Yeah, I agree and we should remove pkgsrc/wm/ion too, thats why I added
Quentin to the mail.

> But if you or pkgsrc users want to keep it around, the pkgsrc mechanism to 
> keep us from storing the source or packages is like:
> 
> RESTRICTED=		License does not allow old versions.
> NO_SRC_ON_FTP=		${RESTRICTED}
> NO_SRC_ON_CDROM=	${RESTRICTED}
> NO_BIN_ON_FTP=		${RESTRICTED}
> NO_BIN_ON_CDROM=	${RESTRICTED}
> 
> What do you want to do?

As I mentioned above: Remove all ion traces

Regards,
Bernd

> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:25:27 +0300
> > From: Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@iki.fi>
> > To: tech-pkg@NetBSD.org
> > Subject: Outdated ion3 pkgsrc in violation of the license
> > 
> > The Ion3 pkgsrc [1] provided in NetBSD is out-dated by over 28 days,
> > downloading ion-3rc-20070902 from [2] instead of ion-3rc-20070927.
> > This is in violation to the license. Upgrade it.
> > 
> >   [1]: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/wm/ion3-devel/
> > 
> >   [2]: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/philip/
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tuomo
> > 
> > 
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed