Bug#350739: #350739: cdrecord status?
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:00:24PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote:
> I would like to hear FSF position on this matter and somehow I have a
> feeling their interpretation of GPL license is different from what is
> claimed here. Eben Moglen, General Counsel for the Free Software
> Foundation, noted that he always believed that GPLv2 should be
> interpreted in the way GPLv3 now makes explicit.
To my knowledge, Eben Moglen's *beliefs* on how the GPLv2 should be
interpreted are not a binding legal precedent in any jurisdiction; nor is
this post hoc interpretation binding on any copyright holders other than the
FSF. It may not even be binding on the FSF itself.
Regardless, Joerg Schilling's amply demonstrated animosity towards the
maintainers of the Debian cdrecord package has been such that I no longer
believe the text of the licenses is the principal issue before us. Anyone
so happy to threaten Debian developers with defamation lawsuits is not what
I consider a good-faith contributor to the Free Software community, and I
think it's unwise for Debian to distribute software of such provenance
regardless of license terms.
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