On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:37 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 03:55 +0100, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > I request using the original cdrtools in place of cdrkit. I know that > > it > > actually was that way once but it was changed due to uncertainty about > > licensing issues. It appears that these issues are now solved with the > > conclusion that there are non while cdrkit is actually the offender. > > Last time I checked, cdrtools was not distributable because of licensing > issues. mkisofs is GPL, the lib it links to is CDDL. GPL can't link to > CDDL while staying GPL, so the resulting binary is illegal. > Unless Joerg got approval from all contributors and changed mkisofs to > CDDL, or if the lib it links to was re-licensed to a GPL-compatible > license, mkisofs is distributable, otherwise it's illegal to do so. Seems Joerg actually did some changes: he added an exception to the CDDL licensed libraries that allow creating a larger work as long as it's licensed under an OSI-approved license. Last time I checked this exception wasn't present.
