Re: cdrecord: weird GPL interpretation

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:

> Joerg's changes are clearly non-free; I've not seen anybody arguing
> otherwise. We basically need to route around him at this point, and
> fork from a previous free version. His ridiculous statement that his
> new statements also apply to older (GPL) versions of cdrtools should
> just be ignored as the puffery that it is IMHO...

While legally you're right, I think from a point of view of politeness
you're wrong.  Maybe somebody who isn't Debian will fork cdrtools, but
in the meantime it should just be moved to non-free.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu