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Re: cdrecord: weird GPL interpretation



On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:19:58AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:
> 
> > Joerg's changes are clearly non-free; I've not seen anybody arguing
> > otherwise. We basically need to route around him at this point, and
> > fork from a previous free version. His ridiculous statement that his
> > new statements also apply to older (GPL) versions of cdrtools should
> > just be ignored as the puffery that it is IMHO...
> 
> While legally you're right, I think from a point of view of politeness
> you're wrong.  Maybe somebody who isn't Debian will fork cdrtools, but
> in the meantime it should just be moved to non-free.

We need a valid license to ship it in non-free, and this doesn't
really seem to be one.

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