On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Kitty <secacat@gmail.com> wrote:
FWIW, I'm in favor of #3, and practically, the other bigger distros that have switched back to cdrtools are fatter targets for any legal action. Furthermore, who exactly would be doing the suing? If it's the GNU, then their goal would be to fix the licence problems, not collect money. If that happened, put it all in AUR and wash our hands.
There's one thing that I don't understand: Cdrtools doesn't provide any library to be linked against. It is just a set of executables that can be called by scripts or graphical frontends, like k3b. So why is illegal to distribute a CDDL package that will be used by a GPL package in executable form? I mean, there's no linking happening, and, as I understand it, that's legal according to GPL. Am I missing something? -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------