Feature changed by: Chuck Norris (bugmenot12) Feature #316834, revision 5 Title: Licensing problems of cdrtools Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Chuck Norris (bugmenot12) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In https://features.opensuse.org/311186 it was discussed that cdrtools do not have a valid license (for binary distribution) because of linking GPL to CDDL code. cdrtools used to be part of openSuSE, but were removed exactly because of this licensing issue. The removal, unfortunately, is not explained well in the release notes: http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/x86_64/openSUSE/10.3/#15 Nevertheless, the opensource build system does include a number of copies of cdrtools. Maybe cdrtools needs to be put on a block list, because of this known license problem? See e.g. https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/cdrtools but searching for "cdrtools" will yield other copies of this software that cannot be legally distributed in compiled form. Sorry for posting this request anonymous. The cdrtools author is known to take this issue personal, and I want to avoid being harassed (you can find a lot of examples documented on the internet, where he did this to other people). Also I'm not entirely sure where to raise the issue; but IMHO the main issue is that the build service will be distributing software with an invalid license! Relations: - cdrtools request (feature/id: https://features.opensuse.org/311186) + Business case (Partner benefit): + openSUSE.org: Removing (and blocking) cdrtools from inclusion in + OpenSuSE will give licensing safety , as the license of cdrtools may be + invalid. On the long run, libburnia is the way to go, as this is an + independent project from cdrtools. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316834