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On Friday 01 September 2006 14:26, Greg KH wrote: |
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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 |
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> > GPL in his application, by building GPL software with CDDL licensed |
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> > makefiles as well as linking mkisofs to libscg, which he relicensed to |
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> > CDDL lately. Debian seems to fork? cdrtools therefore. |
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> > |
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> > Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed |
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> > cdrtools-2.01.01 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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i agree completely |
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-mike |
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