"Rasmus Steinke" <rasi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The ONLY reason cdrkit is used in many distributions is the license of
> cdrtools. Jörg mentions on his website that suns lawyers have analyzed the
> legal issues.
> Unfortunately there is no link to that analysis which makes this a pure
> claim.
Well, the license of the original software has been verified by Sun lawyers.
People who are interested in more information may ask e.g. Simon Phipps and
everybody can easily check that Solaris ships with halfway recent original
software. I am sure that Solaris will switch soon to cdrtools-3.0 once it has
been published next week.
Just to make clear how picky license violations are handled with Solaris, check
that "libcdio" has been removed from Solaris distributions in 2007 because of
the license violations in libcdio that have been found by Sun lawyers in the
Sun legal department. Do you know of a single Linux distro that dropped libcdio
because of the obvious licence violations in libcdio?
Why does e.g. Debian still ship libcdio? Every unbiased person should have no
problem to understand that what Debian did was just a slander campaign against
an OpenSource project.
Jörg
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