Brian Sniffen writes: >Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Joerg's changes are clearly non-free; I've not seen anybody arguing >> otherwise. We basically need to route around him at this point, and >> fork from a previous free version. His ridiculous statement that his >> new statements also apply to older (GPL) versions of cdrtools should >> just be ignored as the puffery that it is IMHO... > >While legally you're right, I think from a point of view of politeness >you're wrong. Maybe somebody who isn't Debian will fork cdrtools, but >in the meantime it should just be moved to non-free.
Politeness works both ways. Joerg is one of the most difficult FS authors I've ever dealt with, and has been causing flamewars on many lists for a long time. It wouldn't be the first time that we had forked software to get away from an awkward upstream licensing change; look at XFree86, for example. If he takes offence, that's his problem; he should not have released under GPL. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone
