Pierre Schmitz <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The point is that nobody of us can proof for sure if it's legal or not. So > it's quite pointless to continue arguing here. We will not be able to advance in case that a single person insists in applying rules that are in conflict with legal basics. Do you really like OSS to become vulnerable against FUD from hostile people? > Personally I have no objections against having a cdrtools package in our > repository if someone wants to maintain it. > > Licenses are important, but one shouldn't be too picky about it. If I remember > correctly the initial question was if it is legal to distribute a GPL licensed > software build with CCDL licenses build system. Both licenses are 100% free > and both parts have the same author. Well as written many times in the past already, this is a question that is extremely easy to answer: The GPL claims to be a valid OSS license. In order to become a valid OSS license, a license must not only follow the weak rules from the FSF but also follow the more stringent rules from the OpenSource initiative: http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php The OSI did mark the GPL as a non-free license some years ago because some people from the FSF did write strange claims about the GPL. As a reaction, the FSF replied that the GPL has to be interpreted in a way that makes it compliant to: http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php We for this reason may safely asume that the GPL of course allows to publish two independent OSS projects in a single archive. See OSS definition paragraph 9. See the comment from the OSI in http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php Note that I did also send a pointer to the interpretation of the GPL made by Lawrence Rosen (the legal counsellor of the OSI) http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf I also have a private mail from Eben Moglen that confirms that a claim that a GPL project may not use a build system under a diffeent license ist just nonsense. How many proofs do you like to get? Jörg -- EMail:joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (uni) joerg.schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
