Re: Brasero 2.27.91 release

[Joerg Schilling fokus fraunhofer de (Joerg Schilling)]

Denis Leroy <denis poolshark org> wrote:

> On 09/02/2009 01:56 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > A short time later, Mark Shuttleworth tried to push Sun not to distribute
> > cdrtools anymore. Sun did not follow his demands as Sun legal could not find
> > a problem in cdrtools.
>
> And you expected Sun to do an unbiased review ? You expected them to 
> come forward and declare openly the CDDL anb GPL2 licenses are 
> incompatible ? You are very naive. Any legal review can only be done by 
> a neutral third-party.

You seem to be extremely naive.

Why should Sun write that CDDL and GPL are incompatible?

Sun is one of the _very_ _few_ neutral third parties......Sun is the first 
target for someone who would sue someone for cdrtools. So if Sun believes that
there is no problem you could be _very_ _very_ sure that this is correct.

In case, you don't know: Sun's lawyers found that libcdio cdreates a license 
problem and for this reason immediately _removed_ libcdio from Solaris and 
replaced it by a library that is based on cdrtools.

Sun distributes _many_ GPLd programs with Solaris and by doing this, Sun
let's thede GPLd programs use CDDLd libraries. If the claims from some attakers
would be right, why did the FSF not sue Sun?


> What is your opinion on the CDDL/GPL2 compatibilities ? Can you answer 
> "yes" or "no" on whether you considered them compatible ? (as in, 
> statically linked together)

The fact that you ask this question verifies that you don't understand the 
problem. Fire and water are incompatible but they coesist on earth. GPL and 
LGPL are incompatible but many software combines GPL with LGPL without problems.

In the late 1980s, the GPL has been intentionally designed to be compatible with
any library under any license. 

Jörg

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