From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KCtWs-00037V-LV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:49:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51D02E0390; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313AAE0390 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so528603ywm.46 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:49:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=V+XBjtR9K/pAqWz6XBHtCvcY/0vyBTL4VISw6r0bhxw=; b=eDvEmXTjKIgZANJPSS+M+VF5trtwLf/6+hxOna9ZGWt5q3FgZQSoLycTtAdnxW4yY9 yL6a/Cmpmnf7LQM+ZfppmB/d/LHdFZiGHwBLOcIATzvgJjhc7sN3ZiFzs4e1ZtdpnLuw PQqJ7sKFlVXT408MNU3GYA5eKMrSP9E2JpudQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=f95sdeOwikKmBdOMFg7VtugrL0neb013RaYnxBOyZRMRsJloHGc5cFbNF87IHdC+jk /cpg5ZY2X7bVJW306lPmAEE1dZ9kkkzit2KnEUzywnVblgAr3OijZbt4yuagyj6FM3mJ 4ZsdXwqYcZN7nP5dVFbR7jcR3wV7NWog4Cl0Q= Received: by 10.150.12.3 with SMTP id 3mr6041449ybl.14.1214732944824; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.240.172]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k29sm1961255qba.7.2008.06.29.02.49.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:49:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:50:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <48660d1b.B9v5pIdQ81gN10qj%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20080628213340.4d6c7a06@ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20080628213340.4d6c7a06@ilievnet.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806291150.02874.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 333af03b-2082-4add-8f8d-0d470d9a5615 X-Archives-Hash: 4695b03fd5e1685b146fedd13486ac03 On Saturday 28 June 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: > It seems to me that you are obliged to publish cdrtools under the GNU > GPL until cdrtools contains at least one piece of work which is > licensed under the GNU GPL. Actually that is what the GNU GPL is all > about - to force you to keep the source of a given project open if > you had used any GPLd work for that project. To understand how to use the GPL it is necessary to understand what it was designed to do: Create an entire body of free code that can never be made un-free. That entire body is GNU. RMS says so in one of his many essays and faqs on the subject[1]. The original intent is obviously for people who want to contribute to GNU - they must license their code for GNU under GPL, and their code then becomes a coherent part of something much larger. Picking and choosing bits of code here and there is liable to get one in trouble with incompatible licenses, as this is not the original intent. > How can this be achieved? Simply the GPL applies itself to the whole > system if even the smallest part of the system was licenced under it. Yes, that is a side effect. But I don't think the intent was to infect other code with GPL due to the presence of GPL'ed code, as GNU was started to replace existing proprietary Unixes. More like new GPL code is added to the GNU that already exists. Stunningly obvious conclusion: Don't mix and match GPL code with other code (except BSD where this problem doesn't arise) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list