Joerg Schilling wrote:
The important thing you need to know is that you need to honor the rights of the copyright holder.
IANAL, but from all I know you can use GPLed code in any way you want as long as you honor the license itself, but the copyright holder has no say in what GPLed changes you can do to GPLed software.
If this is a technical list, then people could just admit that they don't have the skills to discuss legal problems.
You are the one that gives us all the legal arguments here that of course nobody of us can legally judge. We only know what you claim that lawyers say and what a e.g. representative of Fedora Legel, who surely has consulted lawyers there has said and what others who have consulted lawyers say. Of course, as you you, the saying goes "2 lawyers, 3 opinions".
Has suse really no interest to satisfy their customers?
Sure they have an interest in that, and their "customers" want fully free software that can be freely forked as anyone wishes. Apparently, cdrecord doesn't allow that, so it's out of the question unless the license is changed to one that allows this.
What is the reason for being unfriendly to a very active OSS author?
The reason is that this author neglects basic principles of FOSS, like the freedom to change and fork the software according to the license without the need to ask any one so-called "copyright holder". The very foundation of FOSS is that no single entity "owns" the software. Follow it, and you'll get more appreciation. Robert Kaiser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org