Re: cdrecord: weird GPL interpretation
Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> Måns Rullgård <mru@mru.ath.cx> writes:
>
>> Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Go read some postings by JS and you won't feel any need for
>> politeness.
>
> I've read them. It doesn't seem any worse than the drivel which shows
> up here regularly. Joerg tells Alan Cox he doesn't know anything
> about Linux systems or security. People here say things about that
> ridiculous once a week -- you've seen them too.
Add to that an arrogant center-of-the-world attitude (you can't change
the kernel now, cdrecord is in code freeze pending release and similar
statements).
> On the other hand, I find this message interesting:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/19/111
>
> In particular, he seems to be relying on German "Authors' Rights", and
> claims to be in discussion with Debian people. That's nearly a month
> ago.
More specifically, he claims to be in discussion with Debian how to
stop SuSE from doing what they have every right to do. I know nothing
about German law, so I can't comment on that bit.
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@mru.ath.cx
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