On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:29 -0200, Johann Peter Dirichlet wrote: > 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). Seems that won't happen, because: - this discussion comes up now and then, I've seen exactly the same discussion on the fedora-legal lists without outcome - the anti-cdrtools people state that CDDL and GPL are incompatible, some have lawyers who back that statement - the pro-cdrtools guy states that the lawyers are wrong, backed by other statements from other lawyers So we're in a deadlock here. One says that CDDL+GPL in one package is illegal, the other states that statement is wrong, but no evidence of that is given. Without proof that it's legal to distribute a binary with impossible license combination, I prefer to keep cdrkit in extra until this has been cleared up with evidence. As for cdrkit being broken: it burns my cds fine, same for a lot of other users. People wishing to use cdrecord are free to do so.
