https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856805 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856805#c10 --- Comment #10 from qvacfcajdjw@mailinator.com M8R-2yr72d@mailinator.com <M8R-2yr72d@mailinator.com> 2014-02-28 17:29:54 UTC --- The quoted text is present in cdrtools-3.01/mkisofs/COPYING:
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
As mkisofs as distributed in cdrtools is GPL licensed, and links against libscg, and is accompanied by libscg (which is not a "normally distributed major component" of the operating system; and Schily already confirmed that the "special exception" does not apply here), libscg is considered part of the complete mkisofs source code and therefore MUST be GPL licensed, too. However, currently libscg is CDDL licensed. Therefore, the licensing of cdrtools is INSATISFIABLE, and cdrtools must not be distributed in binary form. Furthermore, mkisofs/Makefile explicitly is GPL licensed, but contains include $(SRCROOT)/$(RULESDIR)/rules.top include $(SRCROOT)/$(RULESDIR)/rules.cmd these files are CDDL licensed. Again, this is an INSATISFIABLE license, as the GPL says "the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable". mkisofs obviously contains CDDL licensed files in its compilation process. @Ciaran Farrell: did I misinterpret anything? Do you still consider the license of cdrtools satisfiable? -- 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.