cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

[John Moser]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jason Crain <jason at bluetree.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:21 am, Jason Crain wrote:
>> On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:08 am, Odysseus Flappington wrote:
>>>> The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that
>>>> distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the
>>>> copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the
>>>> GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to
>>>
>>> I'm not really taking sides here since I don't have enough
>>> information, but out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say
>>> "contravention of the copyright interests of the owners of the
>>> elements licensed under the GPL."?
>>
>> It means that Schilling is a disagreeable person and does not approve of
>> the ways cdrecord has been modified.  He eventually changed the licensing
>> to prevent certain modifications, so there was a fork.
>
> Sorry, I should really read the entire thread.  cdrecord requires a CDDL
> licensed build system, which is incompatible with the GPL licensed code.
> With the license incompatibilities it cannot be redistributed at all, not
> even in non-free.

The code is GPL?

The build system is CDDL?

... rip the code, incorporate into wodim, rebuild on GPL build system.

I know, not simple.
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