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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:22:28
Message-Id: 44F90227.3080408@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues by Greg KH
1 Greg KH wrote:
2 > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:13:51PM -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
3 >> Carsten Lohrke wrote:
4 >>> Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed cdrtools-2.01.01
5 >>> alpha ebuilds from the tree.
6 >> I completely agree. In fact, Fedora Development also had to revert this change
7 >> due to the same licensing issues a couple of weeks ago. (See the thread spawned
8 >> from the 20060817 rawhide report [1].)
9 >
10 > No, they had to do this because they are distributing a built binary,
11 > same as Debian. We don't do that, so there is no issue for us[1]. See
12 > my other response in this thread for details.
13 >
14 > thanks,
15 >
16 > greg k-h
17 >
18 > [1] As long as we take the binary off the live cd and the install image.
19
20 and the tinderbox[1.5]
21
22 [1.5] http://tinderbox.x86.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/app-cdr/
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Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>