[fab] [Fwd: What is the mkisofs license?]

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 14 14:03:31 UTC 2006


Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> 
> Eww. I vote we get all the schilling code OUT of Fedora as soon as
> possible. With friends like him, we don't need enemies. He's merging GPL
> and CDDL code, and that's just not permitted.
> 
> I say that we (Red Hat/Fedora) throw all our weight around:
> http://www.arklinux.org/projects/dvdrtools
> 
> Fix it up to basic functionality levels and ship it. Nuke the Schilling
> trash from orbit.
> 
Agreed on this. We might consider talking to Debian and other 
distributions first though.


> Then again, I've yet to see or hear any result from my previous license
> analysis, so I can only assume that Fedora doesn't care to clean up its
> existing egregious violations.
> 

I do appreciate the work done and I was assuming that you were following 
up and working on dropping the violating packages.

Rahul




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