Re: cdrtools

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> wrote:

> The GPL (section 3) does restrict distributions of binaries ("object
> code or executable form", to use the words of the GPL, to be more
> accurate, since the GPL only uses the term "binary" once, and only to
> refer to a completely different issue) and states that such binaries
> must be distributed under the terms of sections 1 and 2 (which seem to
> be the important parts of the GPL as far as Debian is concerned).


... please _read_ GPL §2, it talks about less code than GPL §3 does and
even a reference from GPL §3 to GPL §2 does not change things in GPL §2
and only the parts of the code mentioned in GPL §2 needs to be put under 
GPL....



> > I did never claim that any possible combination of CDDL & GPL code is
> > permitted. ...
>
> Understood.  I think that we all agree that, say, taking code licensed
> under the CDDL and linking it to a GPLed library is not allowed.  (And
> we all agree that that is not the situation that we're talking about.)

ANd what I do: GPL code uses CDDL license seems to be accepted by e.g. Eben 
Moglen.

Jörg

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