Aaron Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For those still searching for background on this topic to try and
> understand the effects and discussions of the GPL vs CDDL licensing in
> other distros and how this may affect your use on Gentoo, you may find
> the respective articles on wikipedia instructive. Don't just read the
> brief blurbs included in Wikipedia, but take a look at the citations
> included in the articles as well. I'm not sure it gives all sides of
> the discussion, but it should be illuminating on some of the
> background details that people were requesting.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrtools#Licensing_change
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkit#Fork
>
> Aaron
>
> P.S. I'm fully aware that the text of the wiki articles may be
> considered biased, that's a topic to take up on Wikipedia and not
> here. I'm just using the articles as a jumping point to what appear
> to be primary sources so people can draw their own conclusions.
Have you been able to find that the people around cdrkit try to tell
people that if I do something it is illegal while the same thing is legal when
they do it?
If you did not find this, then wikipedia does not seem to be a helful source for
information.
Jörg
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