On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:44:59PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > As discussed here?, the author of cdrtools, J?rg Schilling, violates the GPL > in his application, by building GPL software with CDDL licensed makefiles as > well as linking mkisofs to libscg, which he relicensed to CDDL lately. Debian > seems to fork? cdrtools therefore. > > Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed > cdrtools-2.01.01 > alpha ebuilds from the tree.
No, we should just stop distributing the prebuild image in our release and live cds. We do not have to do anything with the package in portage, as it is the user who builds cdrtools that does the violating (and only if they then redistribute the built binary). Same rule as the binary kernel modules situation. So we are just fine, one of the advantages of being a source-based distro :) thanks, greg k-h -- [email protected] mailing list
