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

[Joerg Schilling]

Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 27/01/10 22:40, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
> >
> >> On 27/01/10 20:02, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >>> There was nothing but a social attack from a hostile person. Please show me a
> >>> report from a single lawyer that proves that there is a legal problem with the
> >>> original software.
> >>
> >> Please provide a report from a single laywer showing that there is not.
> >
> > In the legal system I live and in case you live in the USA for you too, _you_
> > would first need to prove that there is a legal problem with the original
> > software.
>
> Nice avoidance yet again of the request to provide some legal backing to 
> your assertion that it is legal to distribute cdrtools.

You still did not prove that it is illegal. I sit back and relax unless you can 
prove your claims.

> In the legal system I live in, if you have a suspicion that doing 
> something is illegal, then you do not do it.  If someone tells you that 
> it is fine with no evidence of legal backing for that assertion and you 
> decide to take their advise, you are legally responsible for your decision.

Well, it seems that you decided to use a model that is highly vulnerable for 
FUD and you are even in conflict with your own statements:

Did you remove cdrkit from Arch Linux?

Jörg

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