Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

[Daniel Iliev]

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:30:11 +0200
Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:

> Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > You have written the program prog-a.c and published it on your site
> > under the GNU GPL.
> >
> > I have _independently_ written the prog-b.c.
> >
> > Nex, I've found your program and liked it. I decide that your
> > prog-a.c and my prog-b.c serve a common purpose and they complement
> > one another.
> >
> > The question is if I can take your source (prog-a.c) from your
> > site, put it into the same directory with my source (prog-b.c),
> > make an archive of that directory and distribute the archive under
> > CDDL?
>
> Why do you come up with a claim that is _completely_ unrelated to
> cdrtools?


Claim!? I was merely asking a question.
Completely unrelated!? How about this:

mkisofs.c:
/*
 * Program mkisofs.c - generate iso9660 filesystem  based upon directory
 * tree on hard disk.
 *
 * Written by Eric Youngdale (1993).
 *
 * Copyright 1993 Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
 * Copyright (c) 1999,2000-2007 J. Schilling
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
 * any later version.
 *


So, you have used other people's GPLd work in your cdrtools project
and CDDLd your own work in the same project.

... Completely unrelated? LOL

>
> I am not a lawyer. If you like to get general legal advise, go to a
> lawyer!

Well, you're not a lawyer, but Novell and RedHat have lawyers and I
believe they did not drop cdrtools in favour to cdrkit for technical
reasons. After all you are the one convincing people all the time in
the technical superiority of cdrtools.

>
> Do you have any question related to cdrtools?
>

No, not really. Not any more.


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Best regards,
Daniel
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