On Jul 19, 2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry for the misunderstanding :( Not a problem :-) > Like I have mentioned before some Linux Distros still keep cdrtools > and have never adopted the cdrkit cd burning software(fork of > cdrecord). They do not consider the issue as critical? I don't speak for them, but if they keep on shipping it, either they believe that's ok, or they don't even know about it. It might make sense to warn/ask those you know about. > Your name is mentioned in the Tivo battles with GPL() and Linus Torvalds > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/17/298 Yes, indeed, I was "honored" with some of Linus' typical verbal abuse :-) People interested in that thread, and in forming an opinion on them that's not too biased towards the more famous person, might be interested in reading these posts: http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2007-07-19-gplv3-tivo-and-linux http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2007-06-29-gplv3-tivo-and-linux http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2007-07-01-gplv3-tivo-and-linux http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/draft/tivoization-and-communities http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/draft/forking-and-license-patching > The language, the wording and clauses here and clauses there are > very hard to interpret. Unfortunately, the nature of law is that even terms that appear obvious to laymen sometimes mean something quite different to lawyers. Oddly, the GPL, unlike most licenses, was originally written to be understandable by software developers, which, in addition to the surprising use of copyright "against" itself (copyleft), makes a large number of lawyers quite uncomfortable with its wording. GPLv3 unfortunately became longer and somewhat heavier on the legalese, to a large extent because of requests for improvements and clarifications from lawyers. I guess this is one of those cases of not being able to have a cake and eat it too. Or either :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
