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

[Joerg Schilling]

Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Getting this actual legal review made public would be a huge step not
> only in trust, but also in closing this issue once and for all.
>
> Might I ask WHY this review isn't made public?

If people did require the hostile downstream packager from Debian to prove
his claims when he started the campaign against cdrtools, the whole thing did 
never start.

The whole campain is based on intimations on "possible problems" that never 
have been proved. I cannot speak for decisions made by Eben Moglen, but he is 
no longer a friend of RMS since RMS ignored Moglens proposals for a more liberal
GPLv3 and btw: Moglen is known for a noticable difference between what he says 
in public and what he says in privacy. 

People like me who are promoting a better collaboration between different OSS 
camps are unfortunately a target for various attacks these days. Do you really 
like me to sue people to get a "final" verdict from a judge? Would such a 
verdict change things?

In other mails I explained the legal and the technical situation. The change to 
CDDL happened 4 years ago and nobody did sue me and nobody did even told me 
that he might sue me. What is the probability that anyone will be sued for
distributing cdrtools?

On the other side, I did tell Mr. Bloch many times that he might be sued because
his changes to the fork make the fork be in conflict with GPL and Copyright law.

Jörg

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