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From: gentoo@faulhammer.org (Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer)
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:16:49
Message-Id: A03FWmDSntB@v-li.fqdn.th-h.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues by Lars Weiler
1 Tach Lars, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID)
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3 Lars Weiler schrieb:
4 > * Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> [06/09/01 14:44 +0200]:
5 >> Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed
6 >> cdrtools-2.01.01 alpha ebuilds from the tree.
7 > I don't think so.
8 > We have a lot of other applications in the tree, which is
9 > not free.
10
11 That is not the point. Mixing GPL software with CDDL dependencies (or
12 vice versa) is not allowed, the build scripts and some vital libraries are
13 CDDL in cdrecord and FSF declared this "GPL incompatible" (see XFree86
14 some years ago).
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