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Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?



Joerg Schilling wrote:
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> 
>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>
>>> The fork distributed by Debian may however be called dubious:
>>>
>>> -	The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be 
>>> 	legally	distributed.
>> If your code was Free Software, then it is perfectly legal for Debian to
>> do what it does.
> 
> It seems that you first need to learn what Free Software means and what 
> constraints the License and the Copyright law enforce. A Free software license
> allows you to do many things, it does definitely not allow you what Debian did.
> 
>> If your code wasn't Free Software, then we wouldn't be using it in the
>> first place.
> 
>> ISTR that your code WAS free, but now isn't.
> 
> The code that was taken by Debian for the fork WAS free but now it is no longer
> because Debian did apply changes that are forbidden by law.

When will you enumerate these?

Until you do, I can't see your arguments being taken seriously by anyone.

By enumerate, I mean at the line-by-line level in the source.

I found the rest of your message similarly vague; you said people made
mistakes, that Debian attacked you.  URLs please?

-- John


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