Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (949 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/08/09 21:44, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> 2009/7/31 Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > 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
>
> I emailed Joerg Jaspert to ask about the "Debian agreed on
> distributing the original cdrtools as soon as possible" part of that
> link and he doesn't agrees with that text (sorry, I didn't ask
> permission to copy&paste the answer, if someone is really interested I
> could ask for it). Since I don't know who the "neutral observer" is I
> can't ask him.
> I suggest you clarify this with him. But don't expect Debian to
> distribute cdrtools anytime soon...
>
> To anyone interested, Joerg Schilling started a similar discussion at
> Fedora-legal ML:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx/msg00463.html
> The definitive answer from Fedora was the one from
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx/msg00506.html

The details in msg00506 sums it up nicely. The CDDL ruled out using code
under that license being used in Linux - by intention - it's code owned
by Sun.
The argument back and forth between Joerg and the kernel developers
stretch back a long way before Sun developed the CDDL and where there
are such diametrically opposed views, best to steer clear in my view.
Regards
Sid.
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