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The value of middlemenThe value of middlemenPosted Aug 12, 2004 20:27 UTC (Thu) by droberge (subscriber, #10852)In reply to: The value of middlemen by garloff Parent article: The value of middlemen
It would appear that the text in the GPL that Mr. Schilling is referring to is: Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors' reputations.which is the sixth paragraph in the Preamble to the GPL. It would appear that to some extent SUSE is in fact violating this, but it wouldn't actually be a violation of the GPL since the Preamble isn't actually prescriptive. (IANAL) I am not sure how one could completely comply with this without purging the original author's name from the program which is a clear GPL violation.
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Notification of modification Posted Aug 12, 2004 20:35 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Don't know about the SUSE version, but Fedora's cdrecord starts by printing a four-line warning that the program has been modified and the original author should not be bothered. Seems like that should suffice.
Notification of modification Posted Aug 12, 2004 22:39 UTC (Thu) by Soruk (subscriber, #2722) [Link] The DVD patch I got from Florent (Warly) Villard's CDRtools DVD patch also puts up such a message. I have no problem with this - indeed it makes perfect sense.
Notification of modification Posted Aug 13, 2004 0:34 UTC (Fri) by droberge (subscriber, #10852) [Link] The version on my Debian system also displays such a notice; I guess I spoke in haste.
Notification of modification Posted Aug 13, 2004 6:46 UTC (Fri) by garloff (subscriber, #319) [Link] On my SUSE Linux 9.1:
garloff@tpkurt:~ [0]$ cdrecord --version
That should be clear enough. And that notice has been put there to avoid
conflicts with Mr. Schilling.
Notification of modification Posted Aug 27, 2004 12:36 UTC (Fri) by sinnerbofh (guest, #24303) [Link] Same kind of warning in MandrakeLinux 10.0:
$ cdrecord --version
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Salut,
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