[Fedora-legal-list] Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora

[Christofer C. Bell]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>
> "Ciaran O'Riordan" <ciaran at member.fsf.org> wrote:
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> >
> > I know nothing about this story :-) but I happen to remember a part of the
> > original debate back in 2006, so for context here it is:
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/
>
> Could we please have a fact based discussion?
>
> The article you quote is not based on facts.

Jörg,

The link provided in the above article contains pretty detailed
reasoning justifying the fork of cdrkit from cdrtools.  In reading
your post, I see the following 3 main points:

* I disagree with the fork.
* The fork is buggy.
* Please use my software instead.

I don't see any detailed reasoning, backed by evidence, that your
position is the correct one to adopt.  Can you please provide some
more detailed reasoning for your disagreement?

The salient point from the webpage linked above:

"The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL.  The FSF itself says that this
is the case as do people who helped draft the CDDL. One current and
one former Sun employee visited the annual Debian conference in Mexico
in 2006. Danese Cooper clearly stated there that the CDDL was
intentionally modelled on the MPL in order to make it
GPL-incompatible."

Are you saying this statement is not true?

You furthermore claim that the distribution of cdrkit is "illegal."
My understanding is that cdrkit is based on GPL licensed code.  Is
there code that is not GPL licensed in the software contained in
cdrkit?  The GPL grants full modification and redistribution rights to
all who receive code licensed under it.  If the maintainers of cdrkit
received, are modifying, and then redistributing that code under the
terms of the GPL, what is being done that's "illegal"?

Note: IANAL, I do not speak for the Fedora Project.

--
Chris