Re: cdrecord: weird GPL interpretation
MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
> On 2004-09-01 23:40:43 +0100 Måns Rullgård <mru@mru.ath.cx> wrote:
>
>> Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> writes:
>>> in cdrtools-2.01a38 I found the following weird GPL interpretation.
> [...]
>>> - You may not modify certain copyright messages in cdrecord.c See
>>> cdrecord.c for further information.
>> Looks like an invariant section of GFDL infamy. [...]
>
> Well, this is like a misapplied bad invariant section, one that
> relates to the main subject and may actually be untrue. As far as I
> can tell, it's not an interpretation or clarification, but a direct
> contradiction of the GPL. The same goes for the restrictions on the
> config file default location. I guess that means we don't have a
> viable licence :-/
>
>> I take it someone on this list followed the recent flame war on
>> lkml.
>
> Heh. Any flame war in particular?
Jörg Schilling vs. rest of list.
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Måns Rullgård
mru@mru.ath.cx
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