Wodim trouble

Julian Sikorski belegdol at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 01:48:08 UTC 2009


W dniu 03.11.2009 00:19, Tom "spot" Callaway pisze:
> On 11/02/2009 03:47 PM, Denis Leroy wrote:
>> On 11/02/2009 07:18 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>> That may be true, but since cdrecord is not shippable, it's a pretty
>>> vacuous truth.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, was that just because of the GPL2-CDDL mix ? Or was
>> there another reason ? Last I checked, only mkisofs is affected by that
>> and the rest of cdrecord is pure CDDL. If we patched mkisofs away, would
>> it be shippable ?
> 
> That would be a significantly notable fork. If someone did remove all
> the dependent GPLv2 code in the cdrecord source, I would probably be
> willing to audit the package for possible inclusion, but I could not in
> good conscience recommend that anyone maintain that forked code in
> Fedora, as the upstream author has a long and storied history of
> being... problematic.
> 
> ~spot
> 
opensuse are shipping cdrecord, maybe it would be worth checking what
they changed, if at all?

Julian




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