Bug#350739: #350739: cdrecord status?
* Joerg Schilling (schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de) [060707 14:28]:
> Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 23:26 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > >What is the status of this bug? Since it was reassigned away from
> > > >cdrtools, the non-DFSG-free version of cdrecord has slipped into
> > > >Testing; so is the license change no longer an issue?
> > >
> > > Do you believe that Debian created a non-DFSG-free version of cdrecord?
> >
> > No, but I am told that the CDDL does not conform to the DFSG and thus
> > Debian is unable to distribute works licensed under its terms.
>
> Using "I have been told" is not the way to go as in the current case where
> the information you have been told is wrong....
Stopp distributing lies. The CDDL does not conform to the DFSG. This
decision has been taken in the way the Debian constitution tells how
such decisions are taken. Such decisions are BTW even valid in the case
his majesty Joerg Schilling doesn't approve them.
> The CDDL is an approved open/free lisence.
Again: The CDDL fails to meet the DFSG. This is not a claim where CDDL
meets your standards or not, but it doesn't meet ours.
Also, as usual, you are ignoring the vital fact that the combination of
CDDL and GPL is something between legally dubious and illegal. Of
course, you ca distribute whatever you want, but Debian is bound to
legal behaviour.
> I am sorry to see that some people at Debian did start a "character
> assassination" campaign against the CDDL without ever giving evidence for their
> claims. It is a matter of facts that those people are unable to verify their
> claims using quotes from http://www.debian.org/social_contract and the parts
> of the CDDL that might not be aliggned with
> http://www.debian.org/social_contract.
All of this has happened. But you decided instead to ignore the results
of that discussion, start distributing lies. You are like a small child
holding his finger in his ears, singing lalala and claim to continue
that cows are lavender, even if it just has been proven to just that
only in advertisment cows are lavender.
Andi
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