Re: The legality of wodim
Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 12:57 +0100, Joerg Schilling a écrit :
> > Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> > > There is nothing like that in the GPL. It only forbids misrepresentation
> > > of the Author's work.
> >
> > You seem to missinterpret the GPL.
>
> > If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we
> > want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
> > that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original
> > authors' reputations.
>
> Which makes indeed clear that correctly representing the different
> authors' contributions will avoid affecting their reputations.
>
> > A common misconception is to disregard that the GPL does _not_ void the
> > Urheberrecht (http://bundesrecht.juris.de/urhg/index.html). Anything that
> > is permitten in the GPL is permitten only in a Urheberrecht context.
> > Urheberrecht allows the Author to forbid publishing of a work if this is made
> > in a way that harms the reputation of the author.
>
> Indeed. And as long as the modifications are correctly attributed to
> their respective authors, there is no way they could harm the reputation
> of another author. So we're all good and people distributing cdrkit
> aren't violating any law.
So make sure that "wodim" prints something like:
"This program is known to have bugs that are not present in the original software"
and it mets the rules.
Jörg
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