[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
> There exist several similar attempts on writing libraries for tasks that
> cannot
> exist on platorms other than Linux because other platforms better check
> privileges/security. All these other libraries are derivates from cdrtools
> code
> and all also have license problems. This makes a lot of functionality seen in
Because of the "license" attacks from some Debian outsiders, it seems that I
need to go more in depth with this issue to avoid confusion:
- The original code from cdrtools has no license problems
- The libraries in question give license problems for three different
reasons:
- A few projects took code from Heiko Eißfeldt that never has been
published under GPL and claimed this code is under GPL. This
is an obvious license/copyright violation. It was true for
cdrdao and it is still true for e.g. GNU-vcdimager.
- libcdio e.g. took code from cdrtools that was under
"GPLv2 _only_" and changed the license to "GPLv2 or any later"
without permission from the Authors.
- libcdio and similar libs that are under GPL but are intended
be used by LGPL libraries (like e.g. libgstreamer). As GPL and
LGPL are incompatible (LGPL code may not call GPL code), this
construct results in an implicit license violation
"originated" by potential distributors of e.g. Linux, *BSD or
Solaris OS-distributions.
Distributors that ask lawyers and take care of license problems
(like e.c. Sun) for this reason removed libcdio from their
distribution.
Jörg
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