Bill Unruh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Attacks from Debian against the cdrtools project caused the license to be > > changed. Debian now needs to live with this change. > > Unfortunately it is not Debian who have to live with it, but the users around > the world. Debian is not being particularly harmed, but the users are. They > are being forced to use programs which are not keeping up with modern hardware > etc. I understand that there is a lot of ill will between Schilling and > Debian, but the only ones getting hurt in the crossfire are innocent > civilians. And they have no idea why they are being hurt. This thread started > with such a cry of pain.
As I mentioned before, the attacks have been initated by Eduard Bloch who is no longer active in Debian. It would be a nice gesture if Debian would through him out. As he is currently already in a suspended status, this would be something that is not hard to do by Debian but it would show a sign of will. > > Wrong again, instead I explaind already you why this is not the case. > > The act of compiling does not create a derived work. > > I think that legally this is unclear. I believe no US court has ever ruled on > the issue, and that is the defining character. Without that we have legal > theories of what "derived work" means in software. I discussed this with Eben Moglen and he did not mention a different intpretation in the US law system. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
