On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 10:20:52AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: [...]
> Is it true that SUSE decided that they can provide packages for cdrtools > without real risk? Is their decision is specific to Germany? Should other > distributions reconsider their stance? Debian is pretty strict with license compliance -- the reason is that it tries to make sure that everything in the main distro is freely (re-) dustributable. Perhaps SuSE's decision is more pragmatic -- they perhaps simply don't expect the FSF or Sun (or their successor Oracle) going after them. GPL and CDDL are incompatible, that's a sad fact: that means that you aren't allowed to *distribute* a mixed program. As an end user, of course, you may mix and match to your heart's content (this is, BTW, why some kernel modules are compiled on your box -- cf. DKMS: they are GPL incompat). > If licensing issues are not severe then next bunch of questions becomes > reasonable. Have technical complains raised 20 years ago still valid or code > has evolved significantly (e.g. elevated privileges, device addressing)? It's not "severe" or not. It's how the GPL works, and how Debian tries to take it seriously. One of the reasons I appreciate Debian, btw. Cheers -- t
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