cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

Posted Aug 13, 2006 12:12 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses by dmantione
Parent article: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

Schilling is claiming his Makefile does not belong to the work and he GPL'ed a bunch of .c files. You can only prove that it belongs to the work using copyright law.

There are no need. If you are using Makefiles to build the program - then you can not distribute the result (GPL forbids it). If you don't use CDDL-licensed makefiles - then of course you can distribute the binary and can just remove offending CDDL-licensed Makefiles (why keep them around if they are not needed, after all?). But it'll be too cumbersome, I afraid. Makefiles are independent work - but resulting binary is not. It uses both Makefiles and source files and since these files have incompatible licenses... you can not redistribut the binary.

Note: Schilling did nothing wrong here. Debian (or any other distribution-creator) will be copyright offender. And this means it's time to adandon cdrecord (what other stupidity will Schilling invent next?).

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