Jonathan Corbet wrote:
Sigh. I love writing "license mess" articles.
After reading a bunch of classic Shilling mail on another mailing list,
I did an "rpm -qi mkisofs" on my rawhide^WFedora development system.
Here's a few lines of what I got...
Name : mkisofs Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.01.01.0.a10 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
[...]
Size : 1651183 License: CDDL
The interesting thing is that mkisofs is *not* licensed under the CDDL.
The code has copyrights going back to 1993 (Yggdrasil!), and it is
clearly a GPL-licensed program.
According to the source, mkisofs uses libscg, which, in the 2.01.01
release, *is* licensed under the CDDL. Which says to me (and a bunch of
people on the Debian lists) that the resulting combination is not
distributable.
Is this issue on Fedora's radar? There may be trouble brewing here...
Yes. Last I heard CDDL was not even a acceptable license by itself to
Fedora. Thanks for pointing this out. Copying the relevant people.
Rahul
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