https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856805
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856805#c17
--- Comment #17 from qvacfcajdjw@mailinator.com M8R-2yr72d@mailinator.com
Who is "everybody"?
http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/x86_64/openSUSE/10.3/#15
The cdrecord package has been dropped from the distribution.
Apparently for the release 10.3, openSUSE agreed with Ubuntu, Redhat, Debian that there is a licensing problem in cdrtools; bad enough to remove the existing package from the distribution (and AFAIK there was no fatal flaw in the code, but only the licensing issue). I only found a statement by Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#cdrtools https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-July/msg00000.html states:
III) There are no licensing incompatibilities in the current "cdrtools" software.
This is patently false, and it was the primary reason why Red Hat/Fedora no longer include the "cdrtools" software. [...]
I personally spoke to Simon Phipps on this subject, and he feels that it may be possible to avoid the CDDL/GPL license compatibility concerns by using the Sun Studio toolchain rather than GCC. In discussing this
.. possibility with Red Hat Legal, we disagree with Simon's assessments, so even if Fedora/Red Hat included the Sun Studio toolchain (we do not currently do so), we do not agree that its use resolves the licensing concerns here.
Tom "spot" Callaway, Fedora Legal
So no, I'm not making this up. There *are* lawyers that see a problem here. In contrast to Mr. Schily I have named some, and linked a statement by them. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.