[ITP] cdrtools-2.01

Ross Smith II cygwinspam@netebb.com
Fri Dec 10 23:51:00 GMT 2004


Corinna,

Have you heard anything from Joerg?

If not, should I just package it, try to follow up with Joerg, or simply drop the matter?

-Ross

Ross Smith II wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> Any news?
> 
> I'm still eager to package cdrecord.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Ross
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>> On Oct  1 08:59, Ross Smith II wrote:
>>
>>> Quoting Corinna Vinschen:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The author provides a ProDVD edition, which is based on the same source
>>>> as cdrecord, but contains proprietary code to access DVD drives.  By
>>>> providing a closed source application in binary only form linked 
>>>> against
>>>> Cygwin, he's infringing the GPL.  I've contacted Joerg by mail to solve
>>>> this issue but until then, I'm not happy with providing the tool in the
>>>> net distro.  It feels wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>> Corinna,
>>>
>>> Any response from Joerg?
>>
>>
>>
>> No, I'm sorry.  I didn't get a reply so far.  It's two weeks now. 
>> There's a good chance that Joerg is just on vacation or so, so I'll
>> repeat my posting on Monday.
>>
>>
>> Corinna
>>
>> P.S: Please don't Cc me.  I'm reading the mailing list.  I'm setting the
>>      Reply-To for a reason.
>>
> 
> 




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