On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:35 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > ust 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? Libcdio doesn't violate any license, but it's GPL, while Sun doesn't want GPL'ed libraries in Solaris. GPL for libraries is very restrictive. In fact, everything you link against libcdio will have all restrictions applied by the GPL license, even if that software is LGPL. Please stop spreading this nonsense.
