On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:21 am, Jason Crain wrote: > On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:08 am, Odysseus Flappington wrote: >>> The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that >>> distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the >>> copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the >>> GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to >> >> I'm not really taking sides here since I don't have enough >> information, but out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say >> "contravention of the copyright interests of the owners of the >> elements licensed under the GPL."? > > It means that Schilling is a disagreeable person and does not approve of > the ways cdrecord has been modified. He eventually changed the licensing > to prevent certain modifications, so there was a fork.
Sorry, I should really read the entire thread. cdrecord requires a CDDL licensed build system, which is incompatible with the GPL licensed code. With the license incompatibilities it cannot be redistributed at all, not even in non-free. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
