[ITP] cdrtools-2.01

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Mon Sep 20 15:10:00 GMT 2004


On Sep 20 07:15, Ross Smith II wrote:
> Quoting Corinna Vinschen <XXXXXXXX@XXXXXX.XXX>:

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR

Just today I made the same mistake on the cygwin ML, but nevertheless,
it's still correct.

> > The author provides a ProDVD edition, which is based on the same source
> > as cdrecord, but contains proprietary code to access DVD drives.  By
> > providing a closed source application in binary only form linked against
> > Cygwin, he's infringing the GPL.  I've contacted Joerg by mail to solve
> > this issue but until then, I'm not happy with providing the tool in the
> > net distro.  It feels wrong.
> 
> Agreed. cdrtools itself is GPL, so he must see what he is doing is wrong.

That's what I hope.

> I'll hold off packaging cdrtools, until I hear from you.

Thanks,
Corinna

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