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

[Allan McRae]

On 26/01/10 01:10, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> The article you mention contains a lot of dissinformation and I am not conviced
> that Debian did even discuss their actions with a lawyer.
>
> I am happy to answer questions based on informations I have from various lawyers
> from Germany and the USA, but please let us ignore the claims from LWN and
> Debian. They are not helpful.
>
>
> The Sun legal department did check cdrtools in Autumn 2008 and the legal review
> did take three months. The result from this check is that there is absolutely no
> legal problem with the original cdrtools software.

Do you have a link to a report made from that.  The only information 
about this review I can find is various posts made by you.  Reading the 
outcome of the review would really help clear things up.

Thanks,
Allan