CDDL+GPL still an issue?

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon May 14 14:15:16 UTC 2012


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:06:19PM +0200, Simone Caronni wrote:
> I would like to know if there are still issues with CDDL packages in Fedora.

I'm not aware that there ever have been.

> It is not my intention to start a flame, I'm simply asking if that's
> still the case or if I can fill a Review Request for the infamous
> cdrtools in Fedora:

cdrtools used to link GPLed code with CDDLed code. Such a binary is 
undistributable. If it still does that then there's no way for this code 
to be distributed by Fedora.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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