On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:47:42AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >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. True (ish) - mkisofs can use parts of cdrecord source and libscg for multi-session work too... >>>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. :) *grin* Just sharing that with the rest... >> 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. Yup. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back
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