On Friday 01 September 2006 14:26, Greg KH wrote: > 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).
i agree completely -mike
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