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Re: cdrdao license issues show that cdrtools package is non DFSG, too?



On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:02:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:39:17PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> > Actually, the author offered to relicense the problem code under the GPL for
> > EUR250, which would not be specific to just Debian. 
> 
> Oh, sorry, I followed the first link in the original post rather than
> the second and didn't see that offer. I'll go away now.

If someone within the Project volunteered to write a Free replacement
for no fee, or for a fee less than EUR250, that might set a better
precedent.

In the meantime, the packages that include this code need to be moved
out of main.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     I suspect Linus wrote that in a
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     complicated way only to be able to
branden@debian.org                 |     have that comment in there.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Lars Wirzenius

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