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[Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joerg Schilling)]

> 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.

As long as people continue to repeat false claims from the initiators of the 
dispute, we will not be able to find a solution....


The problem was initiated as a personal attack initiated by Eduard Bloch in May 
2005. Bloch did start to send repeated personal insults to me after he send me
a very buggy "utf-8 patch" for mkisofs that could not be integrated into mkisofs
because of massive quality problems.

He later invented the fairy tale that there is a license problem.....


The license change in cdrtools was done in order to defend the software against 
the attacks from Eduard Bloch. 


There is absolutely no license problem with the original software. This has 
been verified by the Sun Legal department, Eben Moglen and a German lawywer.

I have a private mail from Eben Moglen that confirms that there is no license 
problem in the original software and that the "GPL FAQ" on the FSF website
is wrong. 

There is definitely no public claim from Moglen about problems, there is just
an obviously incorrect POV claim from Marc Shuttleworth.

The test on wikipedia is wrong and unfortunately mostly repeats the FUD created 
by Eduard Bloch.

There is however a legal problem with cdrkit. Cdrkit is in conflict with the 
copyright law and cannot be distributed legally.

Sun is of course distributing the original software only. Even Debian agreed on 
distributing the original software again as soon as possible, see:

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html

Jörg

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