On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:19 +0100, stefan-husmann@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hello, >> >> the only reason I did not move cdrtools to community was that license >> reason. So if that is no showstopper anymore, I can maintain it. >> >> Regards Stefan > > I just checked alpha10, one of the first versions that was released as > CDDL, that also has that exception. > > It seems that GPL and CDDL have some conflicting paragraphs, so even if > CDDL allows linking to GPL with this exception, GPL doesn't allow the > other way around. > > So no, releasing as binary is still not possible when it comes to > mkisofs. mkisofs is still plain GPL without exceptions. > > That could be the reason of this new project... https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6137 The link in the announcement is broken, but it is easy to find in the same ftp, and the Download links in the top leads directly to it : http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/isofsmk/ If mkisofs is the only doubtful part, why not replacing only mkisofs ? Wouldn't that be better than replacing everything ? Joerg already said that mkisofs received the most code changes, and that genisoimage was quite problematic : "genisoimage does not support UTF-8 and large files and creates filesystem images with lots of bugs." I am sure he will have plenty of nice things to say about isofsmk as well ! Anyway, if it was up to me, I would not replace anything, I would just provide everything, and give the power to the user. Either all as packages, or all as pkgbuilds in AUR, to not make anyone jealous.
