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Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > The GPL tries to take off freedom in otder to keep freedom. This does |
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> > not work in most cases (I tried to sue two companies to no avail), so |
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> > why take off freedom at all? |
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> OK, all this means that in your opinion CDDL is better than GPL, but |
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> by no means it grants you the right to disregard GPL in favour of CDDL. |
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> Like it or not, there are GPL-ed pieces in cdrtools and if you want to |
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> use those pieces you have to comply with the GPL. That's the will of |
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> their respective authors. I don't like the EULA of Microsoft, so I |
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> don't use their products. It's as simple as that. |
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If you like to discuss things with the author of software you should not |
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disregard his will. |
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The license change to a more free license on cdrtools has been planned since |
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2001 which is long before the attacks from Eduard Bloch started. |
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> As I see it there are two options to stop the pointless discussion if |
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> CDDL and GPL can be legally mixed in cdrtools. First - revert back to |
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> GPL, second - move everything to CDDL. I see two solutions for the |
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> second choice: |
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Making pointless proposals like the one you did is one of the reasons why |
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there are endless discussions. |
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While the current license set up and the combination in use for cdrtools has |
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been verified by specialized lawyers, the claims from the people around Bloch |
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are all made by laymen only. |
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If you like it or not, the GPL has been intentionally made asymmetric to allow |
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the combination used for mkisofs. If the GPL was defined the way some license |
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trolls like to see it, then GPLd software would be illegal on MS-WIN, HP-UX, |
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AIX, ... It was very important for Stallman to allow to use GPLd software on |
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Closed Source operating systems and for this reason, the GPL allows GPLd code |
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to use other code from any license. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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js@××××××××××××.de (uni) |
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schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily |
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