Re: The legality of cdrecord
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:38:39PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >I talked to someone on IRC and looks like the only license issue concerns
> >mkisofs. This links to both GPL and CDDL code and this is illegal.
> This is of course a lie:
> None of the programs in cdrtools has license problems.
> mkisofs is GPL but uses CDDL library code. This is intentionally allowed by
> the GPL as the GPL is a highly asymmetric license. The GPL forbids GPL code to
> appear inside non-GPL project, but it allows non-GPL code to appear in GPL
> projects.
Oooh, let me give that a try.
I'm a millionaire who lives in a house on the beach. I'm a millionaire who
lives in a house on the beach. I'm a millionaire who lives in a house on
the beach.
Drat, it didn't work. I guess repeating a thing doesn't make it true after
all!
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