Bill Unruh <un...@physics.ubc.ca> wrote: > > Again, let us separate out the ill feelings from the issues under dispute. I > realise that it is very hard to forget history but since both sides believe > that it is the user that is most important, that is whom we should keep our > attention on. > > Schilling here says that all of cdrtools, except mkisofs are released under > the CDDL. I assume that Debian does not have any particular legal issue with > distributing something which is purely CDDL licensed. They may have their > preferences that things be GPL licensed but are willing to live with something > that is CDDL licensed.
Debian even did recently package again star which is 100% CDDL too. BTW: I am happy to see that people realize that there are contradicting statements with respect to why some decisions at Debian have been made in a specific way. Maybe this helps to bring things into a first move. > Thus, is it correct that the issue centers around mkisofs, a program which is > under the GPL2 license and is linked with libscg, a CDDL licensed library? Is > this where the dispute lies? > > If so, exactly what is the nature of the legal (as opposed to personal) > disagreement? > Schilling has made clear that he does not believe there to be any legal > impediment to the distribution of the software. Debian has made clear that > they believe that there is such an impediment. What, in as few words as > possible, is the impediment? See my other mail where I explain why the claim on an incompatibility with regards to the CDDL GPL combination as used with mkisofs is void. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org