[Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

[Markus Laire]

On 9/15/06, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/14/06, Markus Laire <malaire at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Also, it's possible that I should report a "serious"[1] bug for this,
> > but I wanted to ask about this from debian-legal first, to know if
> > others agree that this is a problem.
>
> Reporting a serious bug is definitely correct.

I just reported a bug for this. Hopefully I didn't make any mistakes
and it'll eventually show up in bugs.debian.org

# To: submit at bugs.debian.org
# Subject: cdrkit seems to have undistributable license
#
# Source: cdrkit
# Version: 5:1.0~pre4-1
# Severity: serious
#
# The current license of cdrkit (which was recently forked from cdrecord) seems
# to be GPLv2 + additional restrictions.
# ...
# ...

> Be sure to mention that there are two possible ways to
> resolve this.
>
> The clause is GPL-incompatible, but Joerg#1 said that
> cdrecord was GPL. If his public statement controls, then
> we can just remove the crud.
>
> If his public statement does not control, then we need
> to go back to code which does not contain such crud.

-- 
Markus Laire