cdrtools - a tale of two licenses [LWN.net]

cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

Posted Aug 18, 2006 16:02 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses by dmantione
Parent article: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

A good point, but note that the cdrecord controversy has nothing to do with linking GPL'ed and not GPL'ed code. It has to do with another clause of GPL that says in order to have permission to distribute a binary (derived from the copyright owner's source), you must make available the scripts used to make that binary.

And from what I hear, Schilling doesn't even dispute that. He just says that his make files aren't scripts.

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Posted Aug 18, 2006 16:25 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Actually, with the current version, linking GPL and non-GPL-compatible code is part of the controversy. mkisofs is GPL-licensed, but libscg, which it uses, is now under the CDDL.