cdrdao license issues show that cdrtools package is non DFSG, too?

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

Hello,
As you might have noticed cdrdao is dead at moment, it is GPLv2 but
requires the included non-free library libedc_ecc. See #162788.

Please take a look at
http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite@other.debian.org/index.html#03405
before you post any answers, the short sum up is not the whole story.

cdrtools uses this library, too, the license is:
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	The libedc_ecc sources are protected intellectual property
	of Heiko Eißfeldt.

	The libedc_ecc sources are definitely not under GPL.


Heiko Eißfeldt grants a special permission to use this library 
limited to the following projects:

	-	cdrecord/cdrtools

	-	cdrdao

	-	vcdimager


You may not use this library in any other project without prior getting
the explicit permission from Heiko Eißfeldt.

If you are using this library in a project that has been permitted to use
libedc_ecc, you need to modify the license of your project in a way that
it will not affect the license of libedc_ecc. If your project is licensed
under GPL, you need to modify the license in a way that section 2 (commonly
called GPL infection) does not apply to libedc_ecc and does not change
the licence of libedc_ecc in any way.
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IANAL and don't understand the whole issue, but Joerg Schilling says
he has got explicit permssion to use it in cdrtools, but any derived
version without explicit permission from libedc_ecc's author would be
illegal, imho this includes Debian's cdrtools package.

I hope you can make more sense out of this than I could. Sorry for
the low quality of my English, and _please_ read the thread.

Perhaps Debian could solve this issue once and forever by paying 250
Euros to libedc_ecc's author, Heiko Eißfeldt?

http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite@other.debian.org/msg03424.html

                          cu andreas
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