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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I use cdrkit because I'm sick of listening to eternal bickering about |
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> licensing issues. So I use the project whose license, and |
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> interpretation of the license, seemed to me to be the project that |
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> would make the pedantry just go away and not feature in my life. |
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I am not sure whether you really intend to say this and if you did understand |
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thing correctly..... |
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The license of the original cdrtools has been examined by specialized lawyers |
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and these lawyers did not see any license problem in the original software. |
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The license of the fork "cdrkit" has not been verified by experts. If you |
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follow the claims from the people behind "cdrkit" on how the GPL has to be |
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interpreted for cdrtools, then cdrkit would be illegal. |
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This is because these people claim that GPLd software needs to be build with |
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a GPLd build system and this build system needs to be delivered with the source. |
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The "cdrkit project" however uses a 4 clause BSD build sytstem that is not |
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delivered together with the source.... |
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My question to you would be: |
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Do you like to support software like cdrkit that is published by people who |
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attack other OSS projects? |
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If you like to get rid of the license debates, you need to help to prevent the |
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license attacks done by the people behind cdrkit. I am just a victim of these |
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attacks and the Linux users who are forced to live with > 50 unfixed bugs in the |
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fork are also victims of this attack. |
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Check the bug data bases from the Linux distributors who publish cdrkit instead |
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of cdrtools and you will see that many serious bugs exist in the fork since more |
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than a year and nobody is interested to fix the bugs. The original cdrtools |
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software does not have known bugs. So why do you like use software with known |
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bugs? |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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js@××××××××××××.de (uni) |
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schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily |
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