On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:41:54PM -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > Thus, is it correct that the issue centers around mkisofs, a program which is > under the GPL2 license and is linked with libscg, a CDDL licensed library? Is > this where the dispute lies? > > If so, exactly what is the nature of the legal (as opposed to personal) > disagreement? Schilling has made clear that he does not believe there to > be any legal > impediment to the distribution of the software. Debian has made clear that > they believe that there is such an impediment. What, in as few words as > possible, is the impediment? Read the CDDL section under the FSF's list of GPL incompatible licenses. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
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