Am Dienstag, 1. Februar 2011, 17:43:40 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> wrote:
No, but any Base:System maintainer could potentially.
As we are not "allowed" by Joerg to patch cdrecord to the way Linux does things like device handling and permissions, I see it not fit for the openSUSE distribution however.
Oh, I didn't knew this, CDDL beeing an OSI approved licence this sounds wierd to me.
Looks you are missinformed with respect to more than one issue.
1) there is no need to modify the code as it already correctly honors linux device handling and permissions
2) if you believe that there is a problem, contact me in order to avoid to introduce a bug. If your really report a problem, this would of course be immediately fixed in the original.
One of the major problem of the Debian fork is that the people who initiated it miss basic skills in Linux knowledge and thus introduced many bugs in device handling.
This sounds similar to the way Mozilla tries handling downstream patching, they enforce this stance over their copyright though, what in the CDDL makes it impossible to ship downstream patched binaries? I guess they would have to be licenced under the CDDL as well, beside that why is it forbidden? And why shouldn't we be allowed to introduce bugs? This sounds opposite of what free software is about. If this is a copyright issue this could be handled similar to debian iceweasel, just fork off every release, change the name and other strings on which you own the copyright and apply our patches. The plan is of course not to introduce any bugs ;-) Cheers, Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org