[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Mon Jan 25 03:45:42 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:37 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 03:55 +0100, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> > I request using the original cdrtools in place of cdrkit. I know that
> > it
> > actually was that way once but it was changed due to uncertainty about
> > licensing issues. It appears that these issues are now solved with the
> > conclusion that there are non while cdrkit is actually the offender.
> 
> Last time I checked, cdrtools was not distributable because of licensing
> issues. mkisofs is GPL, the lib it links to is CDDL. GPL can't link to
> CDDL while staying GPL, so the resulting binary is illegal.
> Unless Joerg got approval from all contributors and changed mkisofs to
> CDDL, or if the lib it links to was re-licensed to a GPL-compatible
> license, mkisofs is distributable, otherwise it's illegal to do so.

Seems Joerg actually did some changes: he added an exception to the CDDL
licensed libraries that allow creating a larger work as long as it's
licensed under an OSI-approved license. Last time I checked this
exception wasn't present.



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