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

[Daenyth Blank]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 13:40, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Kitty <secacat at 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.
>
> I'm quite convinced by this argument myself. Who would be suing us?
> FSF wouldn't give us a hard time, and Herr Schilling certainly doesn't
> intend to do so.
>
> I think there's also no question that cdrtools is technically superior
> to cdrkit. There's practically no reason for even debating this.
>

Couldn't we just have Jeorg give his official written permission to
Arch to distribute the binaries and be done with it? He certainly
seems to want us to...