Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

[Cristian Morales Vega <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

2009/7/2 Luis Medinas <medinas.luis@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Marcus Meissner<meissner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:02:23PM +0100, Luis Medinas wrote:
> > > 2009/7/2 Vladimir Nadvornik <nadvornik@xxxxxxx>:
> > > > I have just verified that bug 226019 is still a problem. With cdrecord 
> > > > from
> > > > home:/hennichodernich/ on 11.1 I am not able to burn a cd, unless I kill
> > > > hald-addon-storage. I could reproduce it with all LG devices that I 
> > > > tested.
> > > > This particular device was 'DVDRAM GSA-U10N '.
> > > >
> > > > Also, cdrecord from that package is installed with suid root. I am quite 
> > > > sure
> > > > that our security team won't like it.
> > > Is there a way we can fix this without patching cdrtools ?
> >
> > Free software wants to be patched. Sorry.
> The problem isn't patching at all but it's about maintaining patches
> that won't be accepted upstream.

Could you summarize the situation for the ones that just arrived? I
have been reading the discussion from the fork time and the situation
isn't exactly clear to me.
- The problem has something to do with cdrtools being relicensed, in
part, as CDDL.
- At first only the build system was CDDL, correct? We could have
"just" changed the build system. Then "real" code was licensed also as
CDDL, so changing the build system isn't an option anymore.
- The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL... but cdrtools mixes them????
- The Wikipedia says Ubuntu asked Eben Moglen and he said Ubuntu could
not distribute cdrtools.

...so, can openSUSE distribute cdrtools with patches? Why? can
openSUSE distribute cdrtools without patches? Why?
Are openSUSE specific patches perhaps acceptable in the GPL code but
no in the CDDL code?
If openSUSE can distribute cdrtools without patches but no with
them... exactly what is the problem for which upstream doesn't wants
to accept patches?
What are the problems with cdrkit? Latest release is from 2008/10/26
and the latest change in SVN is from 49 days ago. Not exactly the most
active project but neither seems dead.
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