On 9/20/07, Chris Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all. > > Bug 108 (http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00108) reports the alleged > non-freedom of the cdrtools package. > > The bug doesn't seem to have been updated for over a month, and I was > wondering whether we could move it forward.
Since cdrtools is source-package for packages cdrtools-doc, mkisofs, cdrecord and cdda2wav [1], maybe this bug should be merged with bug 31 [2] which is about cdrecord licensing problems. > 1) Is it possible to establish either way, the status of the freedom > of this package? Bug 31 [2] says that "cdrecord uses a CDDL licensed build system which the FSF sees as a GPL violation." which clearly makes cdrecord (and also cdrtools as its source-package) as not free (according to FSF). > 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. [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/source/cdrtools [2] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00031 -- Markus Laire _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
