Re: The legality of cdrecord
John Halton <johnhalton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:44:56PM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > On 11/8/07, John Halton <johnhalton@gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Of course, that still leaves the question of whether the CDDL code is
> > > being used in such a way that the GPL would require it to be licensed
> > > under the GPL. I'm not in a position to comment on that either way,
> > > but the majority consensus seems to be "yes".
> >
> > When calculating the "the majority consensus" on that being a "yes"
> > are you using Bayesian probability theory or is it just an epistemic
> > community mindset sort of thing?
>
> OK, fair point, I should have ended that last sentence at the comma.
Please first rething the rest of your text as you did base your claims
in a way that misses the fact that the GPL makes a clear difference between
"the work" and "the whole source". GPL licensing only applies to "the work".
Jörg
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