Re: [arch-general] Eben Moglen's view on mkisofs GPL (non-)compliance

2010-02-08 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Jörg, it is starting to sound as if you really don't care of distributions ship cdrtools or not. And in some cases as it appears from the ubuntu case, you actually "don't want them to". They asked for a permission that would allow them to ship your software. You said no. Care to explain why? Whet

Re: [arch-general] Eben Moglen's view on mkisofs GPL (non-)compliance

2010-02-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Xavier Chantry wrote: > Eben just sent me this summary of his discussion with Jörg Schilling on > the subject of the cdrtools mkisofs.  He said that it can be > republished/posted anywhere.  When/if you do that, please do so *in its > entirety*.  All too easy for things to be taken out of context

[arch-general] Eben Moglen's view on mkisofs GPL (non-)compliance

2010-02-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
I also hope this helps somehow. -- Forwarded message -- From: Karl Berry via RT Date: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:42 AM Subject: [gnu.org #544172] Fwd: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit To: chantry.xav...@gmail.com Hello Xavier, Eben just sent me this sum