On 27/05/10 00:04, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Allan McRae<allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[about time we changed the subject]
Joerg,
Even given you are correct about licensing terms (which I do not care to
dispute), currently all risk lies on the distributor. Given many
distributions have (perhaps wrongly) chosen not to package cdrtools,
there is obviously some implied risk. This is to your disadvantage. No
amount of emails from you is going to nullify that risk.
If you would act at least be halfway consistent to what you claim, Arch needs
to immediately drop the fork as there is a hint that there is a definite
Copyright violation in the fork.
I am happy to discuss things _after_ you prove a consistent behavior......
A lot of people make claims against cdrtools. I do not care that they
all stem from "slander" at Debian, those claims have spread. One
person makes claims about cdrkit. We will consistently ignore the
claims of single people, dismissing them as crackpots.
And the license of cdrtools is not even the reason that cdrtools is not
packaged in Arch. On the edge license cases like this have never really
been considered by Arch developers as an issue. They are all free
licenses in spirit. Only clear cases of licenses prohibiting
distribution have prevented us from packaging something we wanted to in
the past (e.g. acrobat, opera). As far as I know, there is no official
decision stating cdrtools can not be packaged for Arch, just no-one has
the motivation to do so.
So lets be blunt here, because doing otherwise is getting us nowhere.
I do not speak for the other Arch developers, but the reason why I will
not officially package cdrtools for Arch is you. My impression of you
is that you are very, very annoying and irritating. If there was a bug
report made about the cdrtools package in Arch, then I would have to
deal with you. I do not particularly want to do that, so I will not
package cdrtools. I have heard similar opinions expressed by developers
from various other distributions while at Linux meetings, so I am not
alone here, even though I might be the only one blunt enough to say it
directly.
Allan
