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Re: cdrtools



On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:09:43AM -0700, Erast Benson <erast@gnusolaris.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:38 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:57:54AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > > Kevin Bube wrote:
> > > > What about switching to dvdrtools? I think this project was
> > > > started to solve the frequently recurring arguments about the
> > > > licensing and the device adressing scheme cdrtools use.
> > > 
> > > dvdrtools are currently in non-free (so not part of Debian at all)
> > > and therefore not a solution/replacement
> > 
> > I completely fail to see any logic here:
> > * cdrtools, obviously completely non-free, is in main
> 
> what? you think if it is non-GPL than it should go to non-free? This is
> nonsense. And, please, don't tell me that CDDL is less free than
> 3-clause BSD, etc. Its OSI approved, therefore it is *free* license.

APSL 1.2 too is OSI approved. That doesn't make it a *free* license.

Mike



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