>From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Having thought about it some more, I think we're both correct.
>>cdrdao cannot be published under the GPL, because then linking it
>>to libedc would violate the license. It would however be possible
>>to put a license on it that has everything the GPL has with the
>>special exception that the author of cdrdao allows you to link it
>>with libedc, even if the libedc license does not give you the
>>rights specified in the GPL. Ofcourse then cdrdao would no longer
>>be published under the GPL, but it (that is cdrdao without libedc)
>>would still be under a GPL-compatible license.
>In order to do that, would require every person who has
>contributed source code to cdrdao to agree to the change of
>license, or to agree to assign all copyrighted code they've
>contributed to the author.
Wrong as I already did explain in a former mail.
AFAIK, I am the only person who did major contributions and I do allow
this kind of usage. Authors who did minor contributions need not be asked.
J�rg
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