On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-January/010357.html > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-May/013557.html eh? more circles? On Thu 27 May 2010 19:11 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > When has that happened? I would gladly package cdrtools. I know from > many users that it is superior to cdrkit (although I never had any > trouble with either of them). However, I fear that some of my fellow > developers would stop me from doing that due to the questionable license > situation. > > What has happened to Open Source Software anyway? People keep claiming > their software is "free", but then they argue about so-called "free" > licenses being incompatible. This used to be about free sharing of code, > but now we need lawyers involved just to do that? Whenever a lawyer is > involved, there is certainly no freedom, just random blabla that nobody > understands. > > For me, this is about quality of software and the ease of distributing > it (and of course open-ness of source code wherever possible). And as > long as nobody sues us for it, I am glad to distribute any piece of > software. bang. this look like a winner here, eh? Jeorg says there is no problem with inclusion. Thomas says there is no problem with packaging. it would appear that there is no problem. C Anthony
