* Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > First, libcdio had an illegal license change: the "authors" took a lot of > > > the > > > code from cdrtools and claim that "their" code (e.g. derived from > > > cdda2wav) is > > > GPLv2-or-any-later. Well, not a single file from cdda2wav has ever been > > > released > > > under this license. > > > > Ah, then you as the original author (right ?) to stop them from > > that copyright infringenment. In the end they, IMHO, have two options: > > > > a) remove/replace your code > > b) release libcdio under your terms (CDDL ?) > > I am not the person who did put the code together as "libcdio". This was the > FSF. We are talking about a Copyright violation done by the FSF.
This is what I said. If they broke the license, they have to fix this. > > ACK. That's one of those points why I thing, libraries should LGPL > > instead of GPL (I admit, I'm as careful as I should be about that w/ > > some of my own packages yet, but just due lack of time - on request > > my GPL'ed libs will be moved to LGPL) > > The FSF has no choice to make the code LGPL, converting from GPLv2-only is > already more than they are allowed to do. Probably not the FSF, but all the authors involved. Can be a tricky issue ;-P Yet another reason why I prefer to keep packages small. > > BUT: please, please no flamewar about license philosophies. > > I am not interested in license wars. I get the impression that some people > start flamewars because I am relaxed about licenses and do not try to make a > religion out of a license. Well, just make one qualified statement at the right places and then better ignore the trolls. They just waste our time. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
