Frederic Crozat
vcdimager | GPLv2+ wrong....
Correct: vcdimager contains a major part (a Reed Solomon coder) that is _not_ under GPL at all. The code has been derived from an Implementation from Heiko Eißfeld who created it for the cdrtools project but made it available only to people who asked for permission to use it but definitely not under GPL: vcdimager claims that the related code is under GPL and for this reason, vcdimager is violating Copyright law.
libcdio | GPLv2+ wrong....
Correct: libcdio is based on code from cdd2awav, that in former times has been published under GPLv2, For this reason, libcdio cannot be published under GPLv2+
Note that there are other problems with libcdio: libcdio is usually called from LGPL code and it is questionable whether this is legally correct. For this reason, Sun did remove libcdio from Solaris in Autumn 2006 and replaced it by a library that calls cdda2wav from a pipe
My impression is that there is a need for a more in depth license review....
8 from 10 programs I checked are not listed correctly. \\
Feel free to open bug reports regarding these issues.
How do you believe that this should be handled? A serious analysis of the license status for _many_ OSS projects is a task that takes a long time and that only partially can be done correctly in case that you rely on the statements from the authors or maintainers from a packet. A packet typically uses code from ore than one author and not every author is giving correct answers on the status (see examples from above above). On the other side, the Sun legal department discovered (during a license analysis) that there may be a problem. So I believe that an in depth license analysis for all projects may help to aproach a more clean knowledge on the license status. BTW: I came to this kind of analysis before changeing the license for most parts of the cdrtools from GPL to CDDL. Before I thought that there was no problem, but the state _after_ the chage is much cleaner than it has been before. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org