I know nothing about this story :-) but I happen to remember a part of the original debate back in 2006, so for context here it is: http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/ The licence issue referred to, AFAICT, is that Joerg Schilling changed cdrtools from GPL to CDDL (in 2006) so someone (Debian?) launched cdrkit because GPL compatibility was seen as possibly essential (for combination with other GPL'd packages) and surely something worth keeping (among other reasons). back to lurking... -- Ciarán O'Riordan, +32 487 64 17 54, http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ Software patents wiki: http://en.swpat.org/ End Software Patents: http://www.EndSoftwarePatents.org/ Donate: http://endsoftwarepatents.org/donate List: http://campaigns.fsf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/esp-action-alert _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
