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

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Cc: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Subject: Re: cdrdao license issues show that cdrtools package is non DFSG, too?
From: Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:48:31 -0400
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:04:11PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> | This software is under GPL with the following limitations:

This alone reminds me of this:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200205/msg00062.html

In short (as I understand it), placing software under the GPL with
additional restrictions simply doesn't work.

Are there any more succinct explanations of this?  This problem comes up
often, and I don't like pointing people at that particular post as an
explanation (much of it being CUPS-specific, and the dual-licensing stuff
will confuse people).  I can't find anything about this in the GPL FAQ.

-- 
Glenn Maynard

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