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* Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> First, libcdio had an illegal license change: the "authors" took a lot of the |
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> code from cdrtools and claim that "their" code (e.g. derived from cdda2wav) is |
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> GPLv2-or-any-later. Well, not a single file from cdda2wav has ever been released |
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> under this license. |
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Ah, then you as the original author (right ?) to stop them from |
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that copyright infringenment. In the end they, IMHO, have two options: |
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a) remove/replace your code |
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b) release libcdio under your terms (CDDL ?) |
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If they choose b), what consequences does it have for importing |
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packages ? Is, eg., GPL'ed code allowed to import this lib ? |
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If yes, then I don't see a major problem, besides that bundling of |
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that lib isn't allowed anymore (hah, I'd like to see that folks |
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like Rich Felker thing about this ;-P). |
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> If you run sound-juicer, then gstreamer (being LGPL) loads and calls libcdio |
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> which is GPL. This is not allowed by the GPL. GPL and LGPL are incompatible. |
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ACK. That's one of those points why I thing, libraries should LGPL |
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instead of GPL (I admit, I'm as careful as I should be about that w/ |
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some of my own packages yet, but just due lack of time - on request |
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my GPL'ed libs will be moved to LGPL) |
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> While the GPL is asymmetric and allows GPL code to call code under any license, |
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> GPLd code is not allowed to be called from non-GPL code. |
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Yep, that's the "viral effect". I, personally like this concept, |
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but everybody should decide for his own. |
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BUT: please, please no flamewar about license philosophies. |
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cu |
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