Re: Bug#218073: ITP: dvdrtools -- DVD writing program

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

On 30 Okt 2003 Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:35:41PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> >       * Begin restricted code for quality assurance. 
>> >         * 
>> >         * Warning: you are not allowed to modify or to remove the 
>> >         * Copyright and version printing code below! 
>> >         * 
>> >         * If you modify cdrecord you need to include additional version 
>> >         * printing code that: 
>> >         * 
>> >         *      -       Clearly states that the current version is an 
>> >         *              inofficial (modified) version and thus may have bugs 
>> >         *              that are not present in the original. 
>> >         * 
>> >         *      -       Print your e-mail address and tell people that you 
>> >         *              will do complete support for this version of cdrecord. 
>> >         * 
>> >         *      -       Tell the users not to ask the original author for 
>> >         *              help. 
> 
>> > I'm not sure at all this is GPL-compatible or DFSG-compliant. Does
>> > someone already look into that question?
>> > One thing is sure, it has nothing to do with GPL 2c.
> 
> This is certainly not DFSG-free: requiring me to provide complete support
> for a release in order to distribute modified versions isn't free at all.
> (It's GPL-incompatible, too, but although the cdrecord and dvdrtools
> source packages contain several GPL components, none of them appear to
> actually be linked to the problematic code.)

> I don't know if requiring me to include my email address is DFSG-free.
[...]

Just for the archives:

Both of these issues (requirement of support and providing an e-mail
address) have been fixed in 2.01a21.
                   cu andreas