On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:00:16PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >On 10614 March 1977, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> It's my understanding that Joerg Schilling is not the original author of >> mkisofs, and is definitely not the exclusive copyright holder. If earlier >> contributors released their work under the GPL, I'm not the least bit >> worried about Joerg suppressing a fork. > >Correct, mkisofs was initially written by someone else. JS claims that >there is not that much code left, but I doubt that he could relicense it >as he likes it. Yup; if needs be, we could even go back to an ancient version before Joerg got involved and fork from there. >> As far as not being able to fully replace cdrtools, though, freedom is not >> always convenient; and we have promised that Debian will remain free. If we >> have to excise his code from Debian, it's pretty clear that it will be a >> while before CD burning is again as convenient as it is today, but I don't >> see that it's avoidable if the copyright holder is not acting in good faith >> towards distributions he takes a personal dislike to. > >Well. He did like Debian the most of the distributions until recently >(where that Bug came up), as we did only very minimal changes to his >code. Seems like one of the last patches, which changed libscg a bit, >made him also angry a bit, but overall it was ok. There's a long history of hostility from JS towards several of the distros and the Linux kernel developers; he has a very abrasive style of "discussion" and seems very rarely (if ever) capable of admitting mistakes. There was some talk quite a while ago between the cdrtools maintainers in several of the large distros about working together to maintain patches and/or a fork, but it bogged down due to lack of time - see freedrtools.freedesktop.org for more details. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me
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