https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856805 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856805#c0 Summary: multimedia:apps/cdrtools: Licensing issues Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE.org Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: 3rd party software AssignedTo: opensuse-communityscreening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: b3738792@mailinator.com QAContact: opensuse-communityscreening@forge.provo.novell.com Blocks: 550021 Found By: Development Blocker: --- Cdrtools is known to link GPL and CDDL code, which has been considered an disallowed use before by Novell lawyers, and cause the removal of cdrtools for OpenSuSE 10.3: https://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/x86_64/openSUSE/10.3/#15 Now, build.opensuse.com started distributing exactly this invalid combination (without a valid license) again: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/cdrtools Please clarify if the licensing issues (linking CDDL and GPL code) are still considered a blocker (as done by Redhat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva) or whether the new position of Novell is that it doesn't matter. If the licensing is still considered invalid, precautions should be put into place to not distribute cdrtools binaries without a resolved license. Either way, the position of Novell and OpenSuSE with respect to the cdrtools licensing problems should be *documented* somewhere! Otherwise, it will just come back again and again. Sorry for reporting anonymously. But the cdrtools author is known to take this critisism personally, and might attack me personally otherwise. I'd prefer to keep this on a technical level instead. -- 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.