First, you need to know the background information: wodim and cdrkit in general is undistributable because it is in conflict with the Copyright law and the GPL.
The original cdrtools have absolutely no license problem. This was proved two times by an in depth license review made by the Sun legal departement. I don't care about the FSF GPL FAQ because it is in conflict with the GPL license text. The "FSF GPL FAQ" was not written by lawyers but by a laymen who is (acording to Eben Moglen) incorrectly informed. The GPL was made intentionally compatible with _any_ library under _any_ license and this is one important reason why there is no license problem with the original code. If you like to read non-biased information about the GPL, I recommend to read the GPL review made by the lawyer of the OpenSource initiative: http://www.rosenlaw.com/html/GPL.PDF and a word by word discussion in: http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf Note that even Debian agreed on March 6th 2009 to go back to the original cdrtools as soon as possible. Ubuntu should become legal too and go back to recent well maintained and legal original software instead of using a questionable and buggy fork. -- cdrtools is undistributable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
