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 1KCAqM-0007MA-2b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:06:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABF6AE036E; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:06:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF41E036E for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:06:12 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,714,1204502400"; d="scan'208";a="7000381" Received: from compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 27 Jun 2008 11:05:07 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF43137967; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:06:09 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <4864b997.wuGCZVlMdDQKTIxH%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <4864059A.7070602@paradise.net.nz> <486408e8.H6jJprFk5Zz6c8f9%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <200806271100.15762.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4864b227.lYMApV4Tx50fgp98%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <28FC20CF-A74D-4C91-8F0C-9CEA66599471@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4864b997.wuGCZVlMdDQKTIxH%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> 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 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <57F2B34A-7155-44E9-AF5F-2760CBC481FE@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Cc: Joerg Schilling Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stroller Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:06:02 +0100 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Archives-Salt: e64d5f43-f5f3-449f-862f-81dab966e7df X-Archives-Hash: f32051e910b0153ca8a7692181883304 On 27 Jun 2008, at 10:57, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Stroller wrote: >> On 27 Jun 2008, at 10:25, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>>> On Thursday 26 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>>>> A more general problem is the license incompatibility with >>>>> libcdio. >>>>> Sun dropped libcdio already a year ago after Sun lawyers detected >>>>> the >>>>> problem and I expect that Linux distros will do the same soon. >>>> >>>> Could you elaborate a little on what the license incompatibility >>>> is? >>> >>> First, libcdio had an illegal license change... >> >> Since you now appear to be answering license questions, could I >> trouble you, please, to address this query? >> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/200045 > > If you like to have a serious answer, do not include pointers to > nonserious > articles like this one: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/ Sorry, Joerg. I only included that article because it came up when I searched for "cdrecord" license problem. Perhaps you could overlook my ignorance just this once and explain why you chose to migrate your software from the GPL to the CDDL (or to a CDDL-alike license). To a naive reader, with only that article to go on, it does seem to be that action of yours which instigated distros dropping your software for the alternative. I'm sure, as you say, this was unjustified on their part, however some background on your choice might be helpful. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list