On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:08 am, Odysseus Flappington wrote: >> The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that >> distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the >> copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the >> GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to > > I'm not really taking sides here since I don't have enough > information, but out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say > "contravention of the copyright interests of the owners of the > elements licensed under the GPL."? > > Do you mean that the actual code which has been released under the > GPL contravenes the interests of the copyright holders? Perhaps the > copyright to some technology re DVD structures is stopping it from > being distributed? Similar to what libdvdcss2 provides to play > encrypted dvds and for the same reason isn't in the repos but need to > be installed using an awkward script? > > Or, do you mean that there is an issue how the GPL'd code is being > distributed, or who owns it? > > How come other applications can implement the technology to burn dvds > without legal issues, like k3b or brasero, but cdrtools can't?
It means that Schilling is a disagreeable person and does not approve of the ways cdrecord has been modified. He eventually changed the licensing to prevent certain modifications, so there was a fork. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss