[Bug 1031337] Review Request: notion - A tabbed, tiling window manager forked from Ion3

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031337



--- Comment #6 from Jeff Backus <jeff.backus@xxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Michael Schwendt from comment #2)
> > For the legal issue, I really don't have idea, as Debian has said it's nonfree.
> 
> It's highly likely that they reject the licensing, which is LGPL with
> sublicensing terms. See beginning of file "LICENSE". It is not permitted to
> sublicense the LGPL or GPL. If one wants to modify the license, one may
> derive an own and _renamed_ license from it.

Yes, this is the reason. At the time, Debian did not accept "tweaked" licenses.
I suspect that this is still the case.

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