[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

[Allan McRae]

On 25/01/10 21:09, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Montag, 25. Januar 2010 03:55:22 schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase:
>> I'm aware that I can get cdrtools from AUR. Even then, cdrkit uses
>> "replaces" and that spells "don't use cdrtools" for me.
>
> I don't see any replaces entry in our cdrkit PKGBUILD. So everybody should be
> free to replace cdrkit by cdrtools.
>
> Did anybody find a neutral and reliable statement about the license problem? I
> guess most of us are no lawyers.
>
> I don't see any problem in providing both if there are no licensing issues and
> we have maintainers for them.

Not anything recent: http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/ .  Debian thinks 
about these things a lot more than we do so I usually would defer to 
them.  But given they essentially created the cdrkit fork, I'm not sure 
they are ever going to reassess the situation.

Allan