On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 16:14 +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > On 9/20/07, Chris Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, all. > > 2) If found to be non-free, what will the effect be of removing > > cdrtools from gNS. Anyone know which packages it will break? > > It will remove CD/DVD-writing support from gNS. It will break all > packages which depends on CD/DVD-writing ability. > > Debian has fixed this situation by replacing cdrtools with cdrkit. If > gNS accepts cdrkit as free software, then gNS could do the same. If > not, gNS might have a big problem here.
We would have to backport and maintain it for ourselves - a real pita a around. Wasnt there questions about cdrkit's freedom too? kk > > [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/source/cdrtools > [2] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00031 -- Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian / Ubuntu / gNewSense _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
