-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hallo Jörg,
Joerg Schilling wrote: > It _is_ a shame > that > Debian does not come with the bug-free original software but with a > replacement > that causes many problems for the Debian Users. Let's summarize: 1. You'd like to have the 'bug-free original software' in debian. 2. You don't release your original software with a license compatible with the DFSG [1], ie your licence is explicitly not one of those endorsed by the debian project. In fact you deliberately changed your license from one endorsed by the debian project to a different one. This seems rather contradicting to me. 3. You claim that your mixing of licenses is legal, despite dozens of people from different free and commercial distributions having a different opinion on the matter, including both GNU and Sun, who seem to agree that both licenses are incompatible. (GNU is the body that defined what 'free software' is, so it seems obvious that any license that is designed to be different by definition is 'not free' or at least 'less free'. Sun designed the CDDL explicitly to hinder mixing of GPL and CDDL codes [3].) 4. You claim that distribution of debian's (modified) version of wodim is *illegal* despite the fact that you also claim that your software is free software and hence legally distributable in modified form as well as in unmodified form [2]. This all would be funny as a plot for a film, but unfortunately it seems you take it to be serious. It's a pity that once again the free software community suffers from legal and personal quarrels instead of joining forces to create better software. Please note that i am neither a lawyer nor interested in reading more than about 10 pages about the whole dispute. I might be wrong with my my personal compilation and interpretation of what I found on the web. In fact I hope that you will prove me wrong and that it thus will be possible to distribute your code with debian in the future. Cheers, Johannes [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines [2] http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDL google will help you to find many pages supporting the argument that cddl and gpl can not be mixed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkll0eoACgkQC1NzPRl9qEU3tACdFD/HUlnjNrgtfNA6hpionAg+ EKsAn295ZcKNwOuR1LJ2Qk3NPKIzRi+i =SWhY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org