tags 377109 moreinfo thanks On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:51:11PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > reassign 377109 ftp.debian.org > retitle 377109 RM: cdrtools -- RoM: non-free, license problems > thanks > > Hi guys, > > ok well, as JS stays with an interpretation of CDDL and GPL that the > whole world does not follow (all wrong, of course :) ), lets go and fix > this. The sane way is to remove cdrtools from Debian main (unstable) and > add a free replacement, most possible a fork from the last free version > (which had only the CDDL licensed build scripts, which can easily be > replaced by some automake thing). If you want to join that effort - > contact me. > > For Debian etch I dont think its a big problem right now, dependencies > will stop it from getting removed before we release.
There many reverse dependencies still, and there is no replacement at the moment nor dummy upgrade packages for users of tools like 'mkisofs'. Removing now would break too many things. Therefore, we cannot sanely remove it right now. One possibility is to do an epoched upload of the previous version, that doesn't have this controversial legal issue around it? It doesn't seem controversial to me either to apply code patches from upstream to this version if so needed, as the controversy doesn't include the code itself. This allows to not have this controversy hold etch hostage. For the record, I do not (yet) hereby judge on the legal controversy itself, there is no ftp-master position on the matter (yet). --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
