On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:19 +0100, stefan-husmann@t-online.de wrote:
Hello,
the only reason I did not move cdrtools to community was that license reason. So if that is no showstopper anymore, I can maintain it.
Regards Stefan
I just checked alpha10, one of the first versions that was released as CDDL, that also has that exception.
It seems that GPL and CDDL have some conflicting paragraphs, so even if CDDL allows linking to GPL with this exception, GPL doesn't allow the other way around.
So no, releasing as binary is still not possible when it comes to mkisofs. mkisofs is still plain GPL without exceptions.
That could be the reason of this new project... https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6137 The link in the announcement is broken, but it is easy to find in the same ftp, and the Download links in the top leads directly to it : http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/isofsmk/ If mkisofs is the only doubtful part, why not replacing only mkisofs ? Wouldn't that be better than replacing everything ? Joerg already said that mkisofs received the most code changes, and that genisoimage was quite problematic : "genisoimage does not support UTF-8 and large files and creates filesystem images with lots of bugs." I am sure he will have plenty of nice things to say about isofsmk as well ! Anyway, if it was up to me, I would not replace anything, I would just provide everything, and give the power to the user. Either all as packages, or all as pkgbuilds in AUR, to not make anyone jealous.