Joerg Schilling wrote:
I did already point to the related article:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/77565
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Um die von zahlreichen grafischen CD- und DVD-Brennprogrammen unter Linux
verwendeten Programme der cdrtools gibt es Streitigkeiten, seit deren Autor
Jörg Schilling,
der auch an einer eigenen OpenSolaris-Distribution mit dem Namen Schillix
arbeitet, in
neueren Versionen des Pakets nach und nach einige Teile unter die
Open-Source-Lizenz
CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License) stellte. Laut einigen
Entwicklern
sei dieser Lizenz-Mix nicht zulässig; sie erwägen daher eine eigene Variante
der cdrtools zu
pflegen und haben einen Fork initiiert.
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Read it and understand why this is an attack on OpenSolaris that
is even published outside Debian.
Heise claims that the fact that I am working on OpenSolaris did
cause the conflict.
I'm sorry but I don't speak German, and the babelfish translation isn't
up to much:
Around the programs by numerous graphic CD and DVD Brennprogrammen
> under Linux cdrtools there is the used disputes, since whose author
> Joerg Schilling, which works also on its own OpenSolaris distribution
> with the name Schillix, placed some parts in newer versions of the
> package gradually under the open SOURCE license CDDL (Common
> development and distribution License). According to some developers
> is this license-mix illegally; they consider maintaining therefore
> their own variant cdrtools and a Fork initiated.
As far as I can tell this merely mentions that you also maintain an
OpenSolaris-derived distribution. Unless the translation is completely
wrong I still don't see this as an attack on OpenSolaris, at worst it is
saying that the Debian folks think the CDDL and GPL are incompatible and
have decided to fork to resolve what they see as a licensing conflict.
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Alan Burlison
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