The unending story of cdrtools

The unending story of cdrtools

Posted Aug 13, 2009 19:10 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: The unending story of cdrtools by jengelh
Parent article: The unending story of cdrtools

“keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty”

Note that there's no requirement (in GPLv2-section 1, where that quote comes from) to preserve the functionality of displaying these notices. Commenting out that code would certainly be fine, as would leaving that code there but deleting the code that displays those notices (except in the circumstances mentioned later in the licence, but for now we're just talking about section 1).

So the only thing left to look into is whether the cdkit maintainer completely deleted those notices (rather than commenting them or deleting the display code), and whether *that* is a licence violation. Easily repairable, and the maintainer probably wouldn't object to re-adding those lines (commented out) to comply with the licence.

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