On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:37:09 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >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.
Wrong. cdrtools is a collection of different programs, and while most has been converted to CDDL there are parts which haven't: 1) libparanoia - LGPL 2) mkisofs - GPLv2 or later The problem apparently is that the files for the build system are licenced under the CDDL, which apparently is a problem for the GPL components of cdrtools. If the Linux community is incorrect about that part of the GPL then fine, but I think it needs to be clarified if you are going to approach the maintainers of gstreamer (LGPL) or rythmbox (GPL) about making changes to their code to accomadate cdda2wav given the view of cdrtools from the GPL side. >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. But was the decision made before or after the licence was changed?
