Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:20:34 -0400:
> Wait... when did this happen? I thought cdrtools (which is still in > portage) *is* the original cdrecord? or am I completely confused? Maybe it's me that's screwed up then. I know the license changed some, and saw the discussion on the dev list, then later checking for cdrecord and not seeing it I assumed it was gone as a result. However, it appears I was checking the wrong name and they just added cdrkit, and didn't remove cdrtools as I thought because I was looking for the wrong thing. Thanks for pointing that out to me! FWIW, the issue is that parts of it are now CDDL licensed. The CDDL is GPL incompatible which puts folks shipping the binaries in an iffy situation since parts of it are still GPL licensed. Joerg S. has never been particularly easy to work with, so while it /might/ have been safe taking him at his word as the general author (but AFAIK not the /only/ author), as with xfree86/xorg, many are switching to cdrkit. However, due to the from-source nature of Gentoo, it's in a bit different position and should be able to legally continue the package, as a user can do whatever on their local machines and won't run afoul of the issue, as long as they don't distribute the resulting binary. I just thought Gentoo had gone the rest of the way and removed it anyway, but it appears I was incorrect, since I was looking for the wrong package name and attributed its missing to the licensing issue, not the wrong name. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
