On 04/08/09 21:44, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
2009/7/31 Joerg Schilling
: Sun is of course distributing the original software only. Even Debian agreed on distributing the original software again as soon as possible, see:
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@redhat.com/msg00463.html The definitive answer from Fedora was the one from http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-legal-list@redhat.com/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. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org