2010/1/27 Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 27/01/10 20:02, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> >> There was nothing but a social attack from a hostile person. Please show >> me a >> report from a single lawyer that proves that there is a legal problem with >> the >> original software. > > Please provide a report from a single laywer showing that there is not. > This has been repeatedly asked of you > > You claim that you are allowed to distribute a tarball containing GPL code > and that the needed build scripts are not required to be GPL because the > build scripts are a separate project. You claim to have legal advise that > your interpretation of the GPL allowing this is valid, but refuse to supply > any evidence of that advise so that we can assess the outcome of the legal > review ourselves. > > >> Plese do not point me to the FSF Web site, it was not made >> by a lawyer, it is not secific to cdrtools and I even have a private mail >> from >> Eben Moglen that is is made with general incorrect claims regarding the >> GPL on >> it. > > Great. More evidence from your side that you cannot produce for anyone else > to see. Can you actually produce anything backing your claims? > > >> As long as you ignore legal principles, a discussion with you will lead us >> to >> nowhere. > > As long as you ignore the request to supply evidence that your claim is > correct, a discussion with you will lead us nowhere. > > > As the situation currently stands, there are claims that distributing GPL > code with non-GPL build scripts is a violation of the GPL. This may or may > not be correct (again, supply us some evidence that it is not), and because > the GPL requires us to distribute the code, we would be in a legally dubious > situation. > > I'd be more than happy for Arch to distribute cdrtools if the issue of > whether the required distributing the source is legal is resolved. The > technical merits certainly appear to warrant this. That resolution requires > some actual evidence be supplied... Well, there are some lawyer we can just consult to put a thombstone on this discussion? It will going to nowhere if we can't do this single "clearing" of legal issues. In fact, this is the only hurdle to put cdrtools in [community] repo (well, someone needs to adopt it, too). > > Allan >
