Re: cdrecord licensing and alternatives

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On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 09:21 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> We still potentially have problems despite reverting back to a older 
> version of cdrecord before the relicensing of some parts of it into CDDL.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202526#c18
> 
> cdrecord versions 2.01a36 (circa 2004) and above has added restrictions 
> incompatible with the GPL license.  The resulting mess is probably a GPL 
> violation and not redistributable at all.

well; the GPL doesn't allow you to remove copyright messages either, so
that part is not an additional restriction.
The part about the config file is odd of course.

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