Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

[Sascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@arcor.de>]

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Am Montag 07 Juli 2008 17:30:06 schwätzte Joerg Schilling:
> Sascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@arcor.de> wrote:
> > > They claimed that the official build system was not legal but they
> > > replaced it with a build system that definitely is not legal because it
> > > is not included in the source.
> >
> > Of course the files needed to build cdrkit are in the source
> > (CMakeLists.txt). Does any program that uses autotools come with the
> > complete build system? Where does the GPL say that the buildsystem has to
> > be included in the distributed source package?
> >
> > cdrkit uses cmake to build and that's available under a 3-clause BSD
> > license which is said to be GPL compatible.
>
> Please point to a cmake with a 3 clause BSDl!

http://www.cmake.org

Click on License. It's also in the file Copyright.txt in cmake-2.4.8.tar.gz, 
for example. 

Now please point to a cmake with a 4 clause BSDl! Please Jörg, tell us where 
you see a legal problem with cdrkit. 


> Also note: They claim that the build system needs to be published under the
> GPL. But it is obviously illegal to change the license of other people's
> software.
Who is "they"? And can you please quote them and give a reference? AFAIK the 
build system does not need to be GPL and it's not illegal to change a license 
if the license itself permits it. But that's not the issue here. 


Sascha

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