On Friday 01 September 2006 14:26, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:44:59PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> > As discussed here?, the author of cdrtools, J?rg Schilling, violates the
> > GPL in his application, by building GPL software with CDDL licensed
> > makefiles as well as linking mkisofs to libscg, which he relicensed to
> > CDDL lately. Debian seems to fork? cdrtools therefore.
> >
> > Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed
> > cdrtools-2.01.01 alpha ebuilds from the tree.
>
> No, we should just stop distributing the prebuild image in our release
> and live cds.  We do not have to do anything with the package in
> portage, as it is the user who builds cdrtools that does the violating
> (and only if they then redistribute the built binary).

i agree completely
-mike