On 26/08/07, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Sorry, but that is an interpretation of the requirements of the GPL that not all individuals share. Quite frankly, please drop this thread now. Having a license war on this list is a great way to lose a lot of list subscribers. Please take your discussion regarding the license off list or to somewhere else. I think it is safe to say that most list subscribes are not interested. I think it would be silly at best to say that Sun legal is not aware of the legal situation of every single piece of software and line of code that is used by Solaris. It is also Sun's problem to deal with, so please discuss it with them. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
