Re: cdrecord: weird GPL interpretation
The copyright file for cdrtools is excellently done -- I wish all
maintainers kept the separate threads of ownership so clear. It does
make it pretty clear that cdrecord is not distributable.
Followup-For: Bug #265546
Joerg Schilling's license is essentially the GNU GPL plus some extra
restrictions. These restrictions are probably non-free. Call this
the
JS-GPL
But cdrtools uses code copyrighted by others and licensed only under
the real GNU GPL. The HFS code, for example, is copyright Robert
Leslie. Some of the Mac isofs code is copyright James Pearson.
The eltorito.c file in mkisofs is copyright Red Hat, and much of
the rest is Yggdrasil's.
Taken altogether, it looks like this package is not distributable by
anybody with parts under the JS-GPL.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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