No good CD-Rom copy software

[Joerg Schilling]

Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:

> Well, then lets hear Jorgs point of view on this...
> I will gladly report his reply to the list if he says thats OK, given he 
> is not a member so you wont have to wait a week for the mod to see and 
> approve his post to the list.
>
> Jorg for your reference, the stated reason was linked to in an earler 
> reply I've already deleted, but this is the archive that they pointed to:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-February/000413.html

Just a note, this does not contain not an official statement from Eben 
Moglen, there is only a POV claim from Mark Shuttleworth and this is 
definitely wrong :-(

Eben Moglen did tell me in several private mails that there is no license problem
with cdrtools. Moglen send me even mail that explains why the claims about the 
so-called GPL CDDL incompatibility as found on the FSF websites are wrong.

I am sure that Moglen will never make a public claim that could support the 
statement from Mark Shuttleworth.

Note that The Sun legal department did make a full legal review on the cdrtools
project and did not find any license problem. 

Note that the book from an independend lawyer (Lawrence Rosen - the lawyer of 
the OpenSource Inittiative) wrote a book on OSS licenses that explains the GPL
in a word level granularity (see: http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf) and 
that explains why none of the claims made by the  non-cooperative Debian 
package maintainer that initated the dispute is valid.

Jörg

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