Re: Why don't we change to cdrtools ?

[Posted August 12, 2009 by corbet]

From:		Joerg.Schilling-AT-fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To:		gregkh-AT-suse.de
Subject:		Re: Why don't we change to cdrtools ?
Date:		Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:33:06 +0200
Cc:		opensuse-factory-AT-opensuse.org, KaiRo-AT-kairo.at

Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> > > What _specific_ legal issues are there concerning the package that SuSE
> > > ships?
> > 
> > The same that have been send in December 2006 to the people who introduced the the 
> > problems, see e.g.:
> > 
> > http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html#violat...
>
> If those are the specific things you are claiming, I will respectively
> disagree that there is any violations here.

You are not the Copyright holder - I am!
As you are not the Copyright hilder, your personal belief is not important.....

There are of course Copyright violations and as you cannot influence them, it 
does not make sense to give you more information on the specifics of the 
Copyright violations. These informations have been given to the people who are 
reponsible for the Copyright violation.

You are just the downstream of a hostile upstream that created the fork.

If you (suse) however continue to distribute the code although you have been 
informed  about the problem, you may be sued because of the Copyright violation.

I am disappointed to see that you try to deny the fact of a copyright violation 
without giving _any_ information on what your "decision" was based.

Anyway, if you are showig good will with fixing the current problem by starting
to distribute the legal original software again, I may give you some time to 
recover from the mistake of switching to the illegal fork.

JÃ¶rg

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