Steve, thanks for bringing this matter to our attention. I've looked at the bug log and a summary seems to be:
* cdrtools's Makefiles as distributed by upstream (Joerg Schilling) do not have a GPL-compatible licence, although the rest of the code generally claims to be GPL'd * there is some argument by Joerg Schilling that this is somehow not incompatible with the rest of the code being GPL'd, perhaps under some peculiarities of German law * there are some other strangenesses of cdrtools's licensing Although the maintainer of cdrtools is Joerg Jaspert, Steve McIntyre and Eduard Bloch are listed in `Uploaders', and Steve made the last three maintainer uploads. So I think Steve means to pass this hot potato, which he thinks is his decision, to the TC. Note that Eduard has already said he doesn't want to be involved any more, and Joerg Jaspert has not participated in the extensive discussion. Steve, am I right ? Joerg, do you object to the TC making this decision ? On the merits, the correct course seems clear. cdrtools should be removed due for licensing problems at least until GPL-compatible Makefiles can be provided. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
