Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Regarding libcdio removal from Nevada build 75]
>
> > Hopefully this has been pulled for expediency by Sun Legal and once
> > everyone is clear
> > that it is GPL2 only it will be put back. It would be great to see the
> > details of how
> > this became re-licensed - do you have any more info on this Jörg?
>
> There are two issues with libcdio:
>
> 1) Jorg has concerns that libcdio may have been relicensed without the
> original author's permission. This probably needs to be cleared up
> before this could go into any future official Solaris or OpenSolaris
> builds.
For the code in libcdio that has been taken from "cdda2wav", "cdrecord" and
"mkisofs", I definitely know that the relicensing has been done without authors
approval. For the paranoia code, I am not 100% sure but it is highly probable.
Jörg
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