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

[Emmanuel Benisty]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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.

If this is true, can't Joerg just issue an official statement that he
will not sue Arch and we can close this case. or can any other party
sue you when violating the GPL ?