[Debburn-changes] r381 - in nonameyet/trunk: . cdrecord
Eduard Bloch
blade at alioth.debian.org
Mon Nov 6 10:44:50 CET 2006
Author: blade
Date: 2006-11-06 10:44:50 +0100 (Mon, 06 Nov 2006)
New Revision: 381
Modified:
nonameyet/trunk/FAQ
nonameyet/trunk/cdrecord/cdrecord.c
Log:
Added invariant sections stuff to the FAQ plus reference in the message
Modified: nonameyet/trunk/FAQ
===================================================================
--- nonameyet/trunk/FAQ 2006-11-05 15:17:38 UTC (rev 380)
+++ nonameyet/trunk/FAQ 2006-11-06 09:44:50 UTC (rev 381)
@@ -8,7 +8,25 @@
Q: Are there additional depedencies, compared to cdrtools?
A: Yes. Libcap is required on Linux plattform. Libmagic is needed to support
-content-based creator/type tables with HFS (optional). Libiconv is needed to
-support iconv-based filename converstion, eg. from UTF-8 ins Joliet's UCS-2
-unicode (optional, on plattform where iconv is not already included in the libc
-system library).
+ content-based creator/type tables with HFS (optional). Libiconv is needed to
+ support iconv-based filename converstion, eg. from UTF-8 ins Joliet's UCS-2
+ unicode (optional, on plattform where iconv is not already included in the libc
+ system library).
+
+Q: Why those annoying messages? Can you not remove them?
+A: Joerg Schilling wants you to see those messages. He has embedded them into
+ the source and "protected" them from removal by additional license
+ restrictions. Any attempts to get a clarification on the issues failed. We
+ got some "answers" but most have been unrelated and/or just drawing the
+ attention away from the relevant questions. We cannot make decissions
+ without new and relevant information, no matter how often Joerg Schilling
+ claims that there are no problems with his licensing.
+ Therefore we have to assume that the license is not GPL but something called
+ Shily-GPL, beeing based GPL but enriched with additional terms
+ (restrictions) spread in the source files without attracting attention.
+
+Q: Why not just remove or disable them?
+A: Relevant license restrictions say "you are not allowed" to "modify" or "remove"
+ the "... printing". Disabling the printing by technical means is not much
+ different to removing the stuff, so dealing with that problem on technical
+ level is not the right thing.
Modified: nonameyet/trunk/cdrecord/cdrecord.c
===================================================================
--- nonameyet/trunk/cdrecord/cdrecord.c 2006-11-05 15:17:38 UTC (rev 380)
+++ nonameyet/trunk/cdrecord/cdrecord.c 2006-11-06 09:44:50 UTC (rev 381)
@@ -330,7 +330,9 @@
"please don't send your complaints to cdrkit maintainers; they already know.\n"
"They are not allowed to remove them by Joerg Schilling's license\n"
"modifications (restrictions), hidden in the source. Correcting the contents\n"
- "of the messages is forbidden as well, so don't believe everything said there.\n\n\n" );
+ "of the messages is forbidden as well, so don't believe everything said there.\n"
+ "See http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debburn/nonameyet/trunk/FAQ?op=file&rev=0&sc=0\n"
+ "for details.\n\n" );
#endif /* SHUT_UP */
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