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

[stefan-husmann at t-online.de]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:45:42 +0100
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs
> cdrkit
> From: Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>
> To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
Hello,

the only reason I did not move cdrtools to community was that license 
reason.  So if that is no showstopper anymore, I can maintain it.

Regards Stefan