Re: The legality of cdrecord
>I talked to someone on IRC and looks like the only license issue concerns
>mkisofs. This links to both GPL and CDDL code and this is illegal.
This is of course a lie:
None of the programs in cdrtools has license problems.
cdrecord and other programs are 100% CDDL.
mkisofs is GPL but uses CDDL library code. This is intentionally allowed by
the GPL as the GPL is a highly asymmetric license. The GPL forbids GPL code to
appear inside non-GPL project, but it allows non-GPL code to appear in GPL
projects.
No non-GPL source is based on or derived from GPL code.
> In particular, I just got an email from the author of cdparanoia that he has
>already given permission to the author of cdrtools to use the cdparanoia code
>as it was
> LGPL.
This is also a lie - cdparanoia _was_ _not_ LGPL!
The paranoia code was under GPLv2 only. I created a library from the code
and I asked the paranoia author for the permission to change the license to
LGPL. This was needed as libparanoia is used by a CDDL projekt.
BTW: The reason for the Debian fork was definitely not a license problem but
the missing will from a few Debian maintainers to cooperate.
Jörg
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