Re: cdrecord: weird GPL interpretation
Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
> I do agree that we should avoid upgrading to versions he's provided which
> are accompanied by statements about copyright which conflict with the GPL.
>
> But I don't see any valid reason for pulling prior versions out of main.
I see this as a similar circumstance to Pine. UW had very clearly
given a free license, then switched to a loopy interpretation where we
didn't have a license to distribute modified versions. So it got
pulled from main. They changed their license for future versions --
sure, they called it a clarification, but it was a pretty big change.
But Debian doesn't distribute that old pine, because -- even when the
copyright holder has gone insane -- it's polite to accede to their
wishes.
The same action is appropriate here.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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