Re: cdrtools

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes:

> Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> wrote:
>
>> the author's official module). You say that I don't have the right to
>> distribute this under the name PDF::API2 in Debian, do I understand
>> correctly? Please tell me: This module is a Perl library. If I modify
>> it to become PDF::API2::Debian, how will our users' code be portable?
>
> You are a funny person.....
>
> You like to talk avout portabilitiy but the patches that Debian aplies to 
> cdrtools are only from two categories:
>
> -	Patches that introduce bugs that cannot be found in the original
> 	software
>
> -	Patches that make the Debian version incompatible to the official
> 	version and thus prevent portability of scripts and GUI programs
>
> What I request from distributors is only a result of the malicious ways well 
> known distributors go. There was no need to add these requirements in case that
> all distributors would be cooperative.
>
> Jörg


How is the weather today?

I told you, the grass is green.


Please try to read, understand and answere the question asked in a
mail. Hint: The question wasn't about cdrtools patches.

MfG
        Goswin