* Adam Borowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060914 15:55]: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:37:11PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > > I'm concerned about the licensing of cdrkit[1,2] aka debburn, which > > was recently forked from cdrecord. > > > > The current license seems to be GPLv2 + additional restrictions which > > IMHO is not right because GPLv2 doesn't allow any such additional > > restrictions. > > > > An example from libscg/scsi-linux-ata.c[3]: > > <skip> > > * Warning: you may change this source, but if you do that > > * you need to change the _scg_version and _scg_auth* string below. > > * You may not return "schily" for an SCG_AUTHOR request anymore. > > Idea: what about reverting this single file to the last version under real > GPL (as opposed to GPL-with-unmodifiable-sections)?
This is not GPL-with-unmodifiable-sections, it is just "you need to document it if you change something". Which seems pretty fair to me, and I currently don't see the issue with GPL there. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
