Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>From: Manuel Clos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Ok, let's fix it then.
> Well a few days did pass and nothing did happen. Why?

I have still no notice from Andreas too. Perhaps he is on vacation or 
can't get online.

> It is interesting to see than Andreas did not even send a single mail.
> 
> Is there no real interest to fix up the problem?

I have interest to fix the problem and I hope Andreas has too.

> Andreas definitely does know that libedc is _not_ GPL. He has the special 
> permission to use libedc with cdrdao.
> 
> The fact that he requested and received this special permission makes it clear 
> that it _cannot_ be GPL. If it was GPLd code then this special permission 
> is not needed....
> 
> A major problem with cdrdao is that the fact that cdrdao states that the whole
> project is GPLd makes authors of other SW believe that libedc is GPLd too.
> 
> A senseful reaction from Andreas could be to immediately remove all copies that
> include the false claims and publish updated versions (e.g. cdrdao-1.1.5a, ...).
> In addition, it would be desirable that Andreas contacts all Authors of related
> SW that uses libedc and informs them to fix their licenses too.

I already told Andreas what is specifically needed (include the COPYING 
in libedc_ecc, updating the cdrdao COPYING file, ...). I also asked him 
to do a new release after the fix. No response from him yet.

> When will this hapen?

I hope it will the soon.


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