On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > I have a question first: > > 1) cdda2wav is part of a package called cdrtools > 2) due to relicensing of part of the code in cdrtools almost a year > ago most (all?) linux distributions dropped cdrtools as the changes > introduced an apparent GPL violation in the eyes of the Linux > distributions > > See http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/ > > Does this mean Sun believes the Linux community is incorrect in their > assessment of the license issues, or is Sun unaware of the issue and > entering an area that should be evaluated before effort is made > creating GUI and/or gstreamer interfaces for cdda2wav?
AFAIK, cdrtools is now licensed under the CDDL, thus there is no incompatibility as far as we're concerned. If the Linux community wishes to get caught up in religion and politics (a.k.a irrelvant licensing issues that are the result of mis-understanding their own preferred license -- the GPL), that's their prerogative, not our's. cdrtools and star (another piece of software Joerg has written that's also licensed under the CDDL) are already integrated or have been approved by an ARC for integration on some level (ON, sfw, etc.), therefore, the decision has already been made that there are no licensing issues with cdrtools. Derek E. Lewis delewis at acm.org http://delewis.blogspot.com
