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

[Joerg Schilling]

Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:

> I disagree. It seems that most of the mkisofs code was actually written
> by Jörg himself or written while the package was under Jörg's
> maintainership (only a small portion is from the original author, who
> has no interest in it anymore), so I would consider him the defacto
> copyright holder on mkisofs, which means he is the only one who could
> sue us if linking the GPL-code against a CDDL library would in fact
> violate the GPL. Now as he is the one who claims that this is NOT a
> problem, he won't do that. This is a non-issue, nothing will happen to
> us, nobody will be pissed, nobody will sue us, everything will just be
> better and the world will be a happier place.

Thank you! You did find a very good phrase that is hard to find by an affected
person. It seems that you hit the nail on the head.

Jörg

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