On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 13:40, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Kitty <secacat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> FWIW, I'm in favor of #3, and practically, the other bigger distros >> that have switched back to cdrtools are fatter targets for any legal >> action. Furthermore, who exactly would be doing the suing? If it's the >> GNU, then their goal would be to fix the licence problems, not collect >> money. If that happened, put it all in AUR and wash our hands. > > I'm quite convinced by this argument myself. Who would be suing us? > FSF wouldn't give us a hard time, and Herr Schilling certainly doesn't > intend to do so. > > I think there's also no question that cdrtools is technically superior > to cdrkit. There's practically no reason for even debating this. > Couldn't we just have Jeorg give his official written permission to Arch to distribute the binaries and be done with it? He certainly seems to want us to...
