[Fedora-legal-list] Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora

[Christofer C. Bell]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Joerg
Schilling<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>
> Or in other words, you have no arguments.
>
> If you have any valid arguments you are welcome. As long as you don't, I see
> no way to continue the discussion as it will not take us any further.

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html  I'm sure you can
find where you're mentioned in that piece.  I'll point it out to make
it easy:

"Sadly, some people don't learn. Essentially the same thing happened
in 2006, when the author of "cdrtools" tried to switch to a
GPL-incompatible license; all major distributors started and switched
to a new project (cdrkit) instead. The original cdrtools suite is a
set of tools for writing information to CDs and DVDs. In this case,
Jörg Schilling (author of cdrtools) changed his license from the GPL
to the GPL-incompatible CDDL. Jörg Schilling claimed that there was no
issue, but this is simply nonsense. Jörg is not a lawyer, while all
lawyers who examined the issue, as well as the developers of both the
CDDL and GPL licenses, agreed that the licenses are incompatible."

The sad fact for you is that we trust the lawyers more than we trust
you.  To elaborate, again from the same piece:

"At this point, almost no one cares what the original author does with
his version; the version people actually use is controlled by others."

-- 
Chris