On 10614 March 1977, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>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. Only in theory. In practice we wouldnt be able to go back *that* far, we would lose a lot of stuff we need or want in mkisofs. But thats not a problem, there were never claims that any file in mkisofs has license problems. Its "only" the cdrecord.c part and the build system atm. >>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. Yesyes, i know that, im cdrtools debian maintainer for some time now. :) > 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. Yah. If we go the fork way we would do something similar via our existing alioth project probably. But thats for later atm. -- bye Joerg <Getty> meebey: Ich kanns Dir remote machen;) <Getty> oh mann... erst denken dann schreiben
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