Christoph Höger <choeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am not in any way officially speaking for fedora, Just my 2ct: > > 1. FSF is very explicit about GPL and CDDL: The FSF has no relevence for the cdrtools project as the FSF does not own Copyright on the project. Please let us discuss relevent text only. > > This means a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the > > CDDL cannot legally be linked together. We urge you not to use the > > CDDL for this reason. This is text that was not written by a lawyer and it is a proof that we need to ignore claims from the FSF - sorry but the FSF is not a neutral institution. The FSF has private interests with propagating own products. This results in biased claims like the one above. If you did read the articles from literature list I provided with my last mail, you did even understand why this claim from the FSF is not correct. Please read the articles from Lawrence Rose. He is a neutral lawyer and he explains the GPL in full details. > So at this point it seems to be illegal to distribute mkisofs. I wonder The GPL was intentionally made compatible to any independent library under any license. See: http://www.rosenlaw.com/html/GPL.PDF http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf If you believe that the GPL does not offer this compatibility, then you believe that any Linux distribution is illegal and you would need to remove the GPL from the list of approved OSS licenses and the licenses that follow the OpenSource definition in: http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php > 2. Jörg, could you please be more verbosive about why exactly fedora is > currently violating UrhG? I cannot see how how you could revoke a once I did do this to the initiators of the fork. As they have no interest in making the fork legal, it makes no sense to discuss this. > granted license because they use "your" filenames. Especially: Which > marks do you claim are required because of ?13 and since cdrkit is a > derived work how do debian developers in _any_ way change _your_ work? A license like the GPL is just a contract and a contract cannot enforce claims that are in conflict with the related law. You only have the right to modify the sources if you follow the rules from the law. As the initiators of the fork don't like to do this, the fork cannot be legally distributed. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (uni) joerg.schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
