Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Aaron Clark <ophidian@ophidian.homeip.net> wrote:

> For those still searching for background on this topic to try and  
> understand the effects and discussions of the GPL vs CDDL licensing in  
> other distros and how this may affect your use on Gentoo, you may find  
> the respective articles on wikipedia instructive.  Don't just read the  
> brief blurbs included in Wikipedia, but take a look at the citations  
> included in the articles as well.  I'm not sure it gives all sides of  
> the discussion, but it should be illuminating on some of the  
> background details that people were requesting.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrtools#Licensing_change
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkit#Fork
>
> Aaron
>
> P.S. I'm fully aware that the text of the wiki articles may be  
> considered biased, that's a topic to take up on Wikipedia and not  
> here.  I'm just using the articles as a jumping point to what appear  
> to be primary sources so people can draw their own conclusions.

Have you been able to find that the people around cdrkit try to tell
people that if I do something it is illegal while the same thing is legal when 
they do it?

If you did not find this, then wikipedia does not seem to be a helful source for
information.


Jörg

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