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

[Joerg Schilling]

Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:29 -0200, Johann Peter Dirichlet wrote:
> > Well, there are some lawyer we can just consult to put a thombstone on
> > this discussion? It will going to nowhere if we can't do this single
> > "clearing" of legal issues. In fact, this is the only hurdle to put
> > cdrtools in [community] repo (well, someone needs to adopt it, too).
>
> Seems that won't happen, because:
> - this discussion comes up now and then, I've seen exactly the same
> discussion on the fedora-legal lists without outcome
> - the anti-cdrtools people state that CDDL and GPL are incompatible,
> some have lawyers who back that statement

Just to make it clear:

There is not a single claim from a lawyer that confirms the claims from
the hostile downstram packager.

Jörg

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