cdrtools-2.01

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Tuesday, 22. February 2005 04:36, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:46:49AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Monday, 21. February 2005 23:05, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:50:57AM -0300, Ivo Roumenov Tonev wrote:
> > > > Patch for DVD writing
> > > >
> > > > can include it in the port?
> > >
> > > No, sorry, the author of cdrecord regards the inclusion of such patches
> > > as a violation of the cdrecord license
> >
> > The 'cdrecord license' is the GPL, it would be pretty bad for us if we
> > (or anyone) couldn't distribute binaries of patched, GPL'd software.
>
> It's the GPL + a couple of additional restrictions (e.g. one must not
> change tests in the configure script) + a "clarification text" about
> how to interpret certain parts of the GPL for cdrecord.

Well, yeah, schily's idiosyncrasies are rather famous. :-)

Fwiw, Ivo, you could always submit a slave-port to cdrtools (or even a 
completely new port) that uses those patches and produces a cdrtools-redhat 
package, which CONFLICTS with cdrtools. That package could act as a drop-in 
replacement for cdrtools for anyone who really wants it and the rest of the 
world would never get it, which is probably in schily's best interest as well 
(as he's mostly annoyed by supporting code he didn't write).

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