Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 08 Juli 2008 16:12:43 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
> > Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The cdrtools tarball includes a file called "Makefile" in every
> > > directory. The cdrkit includes a file called "CMakeList.txt" in every
> > > directory. THAT FILE has a copyright and license terms attached to it,
> > > just like any other source file.
> > >
> > > In cdrtools, that file is covered by the CDDL. In cdrkit, that file is
> >
> > This is a definite lie!
> File RULES/rules.top, which is included in mkisofs/Makefile:
>
> # The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the
> # Common Development and Distribution License, Version 1.0 only.
>
> Please tell us now that it is NOT covered by the CDDL. That file is obviously
> a script to control the build process.
Besides the fact that this is completely irrelevent (the GPL does _not_ require
what they call "the scripts...." to be under GPL), you are missinterpreting
software and legal definitions!
RULES/rules.top is part of a program that is a _separate_ project called "the
schily makefile system". It has been written in a language called "make" and it
is much _older_ than and _independent_ from cdrtools.
If "the schily makefile system" was under GPL, _then_ there was a problem
because the GPL limits the freedom to use software. As "the schily makefile
system" is under the more free CDDL that (in contrary to the GPL) does not
limit the freedom to use software, there is no problem.
mkisofs/Makefile is a "derived work" from "the schily makefile system". The
CDDL gives you the freedom to have a derived work under a license that is not
the CDDL.
"the schily makefile system" is _definitely_ _not_ a derived work from
mkisofs/Makefile
It seems that you still need to learn the difference between
- "the bucket contains water"
and
- "the water contains a bucket"
Come back after you learned this.....
Jörg
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