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On 27 Jun 2008, at 10:57, Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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> Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On 27 Jun 2008, at 10:25, Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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>>> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> On Thursday 26 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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>>>>> A more general problem is the license incompatibility with |
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>>>>> libcdio. |
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>>>>> Sun dropped libcdio already a year ago after Sun lawyers detected |
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>>>>> the |
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>>>>> problem and I expect that Linux distros will do the same soon. |
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>>>> Could you elaborate a little on what the license incompatibility |
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>>>> is? |
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>>> |
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>>> First, libcdio had an illegal license change... |
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>> Since you now appear to be answering license questions, could I |
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>> trouble you, please, to address this query? |
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>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/200045 |
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> If you like to have a serious answer, do not include pointers to |
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> nonserious |
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> articles like this one: |
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> http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/ |
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Sorry, Joerg. |
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I only included that article because it came up when I searched for |
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"cdrecord" license problem. |
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Perhaps you could overlook my ignorance just this once and explain |
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why you chose to migrate your software from the GPL to the CDDL |
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(or to a CDDL-alike license). |
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To a naive reader, with only that article to go on, it does seem to |
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be that action of yours which instigated distros dropping your |
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software for the alternative. I'm sure, as you say, this was |
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unjustified on their part, however some background on your choice |
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might be helpful. |
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Stroller. |
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