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Re: [ITP] cdrtools-2.01


On Sep 17 09:41, Ross Smith II wrote:
> I want to contribute/maintain cdrtools (cdrecord, mkisofs, etc).
> Canonical website:
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
> 
> Package setup.hint:
> ===
> sdesc: "Rip and burn CDs, make ISO files, and related utilities"
> ldesc: "CDRTools is a collection of utilities, that allows one to rip and
> burn CD-Rs and CD-RWs.
> Also included are utilities to create ISO files, and to convert audio CD
> tracks to .wav files."
> requires: cygwin
> category: Utils
> 
> Does anyone see any issues with producing this package?


Sorry, but yes.

Joerg is providing ProDVD executables for Cygwin for which he doesn't
provide the source code, so he's clearly infringing the Cygwin license
unless he has a buyout license.  From what I can tell, he hasn't.

Until that's sorted out, I'll veto the package.


Corinna

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