On 30 Okt 2003 Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:35:41PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> > * Begin restricted code for quality assurance.
>> > *
>> > * Warning: you are not allowed to modify or to remove the
>> > * Copyright and version printing code below!
>> > *
>> > * If you modify cdrecord you need to include additional version
>> > * printing code that:
>> > *
>> > * - Clearly states that the current version is an
>> > * inofficial (modified) version and thus may have
>> > bugs
>> > * that are not present in the original.
>> > *
>> > * - Print your e-mail address and tell people that you
>> > * will do complete support for this version of
>> > cdrecord.
>> > *
>> > * - Tell the users not to ask the original author for
>> > * help.
>
>> > I'm not sure at all this is GPL-compatible or DFSG-compliant. Does
>> > someone already look into that question?
>> > One thing is sure, it has nothing to do with GPL 2c.
>
> This is certainly not DFSG-free: requiring me to provide complete support
> for a release in order to distribute modified versions isn't free at all.
> (It's GPL-incompatible, too, but although the cdrecord and dvdrtools
> source packages contain several GPL components, none of them appear to
> actually be linked to the problematic code.)
> I don't know if requiring me to include my email address is DFSG-free.
[...]
Just for the archives:
Both of these issues (requirement of support and providing an e-mail
address) have been fixed in 2.01a21.
cu andreas
