Re: k3b -> cddb doesn't work

[Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 8/21/2013 4:15 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Why do you believe this?
> > Do you believe that centos delivers inconstsistent libraries?
>
> if you replace the stuff thats under RPM package management with code 
> you self compile and simply copy, you break the package management 
> system.   an update might come along and not realize your code is in the 
> place of the original RPM supplied files and replace them.

You cannot break something that is broken already. A distro that ignores 
updates since nearly 10 year is definitely broken. 

> btw, are /any/ CDDL components bundled with major linux distributions?   
> I know Sun Java was never bundled due to CDDL entanglement, instead we 
> have OpenJDK, which is GPL.

Of course. The CDDL is one of the 8 major OSS licenses.

Jörg

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