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cdrtools - a tale of two licensescdrtools - a tale of two licensesPosted 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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