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On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:44:59PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> As discussed here?, the author of cdrtools, J?rg Schilling, violates the GPL |
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> in his application, by building GPL software with CDDL licensed makefiles as |
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> well as linking mkisofs to libscg, which he relicensed to CDDL lately. Debian |
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> seems to fork? cdrtools therefore. |
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> Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed cdrtools-2.01.01 |
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> alpha ebuilds from the tree. |
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No, we should just stop distributing the prebuild image in our release |
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and live cds. We do not have to do anything with the package in |
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portage, as it is the user who builds cdrtools that does the violating |
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(and only if they then redistribute the built binary). |
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Same rule as the binary kernel modules situation. |
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So we are just fine, one of the advantages of being a source-based |
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distro :) |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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