On Thursday 08 September 2005 20:24, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:53:12PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > On Thursday 08 September 2005 16:21, Sven Luther wrote: > > --cut-- > > > > > Yeah, well, i did an apt-get install star and looked at the copyright > > > file, so i am not sure what facts i have to believe then. > > > > > > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/star/star_1.4a17-3/ > > > >star .copyright > > > > > > > > Took about ten seconds to find out it was GPL before upstream > > > > relicensed and debian maint just copied that. > > > > > > Ah, ok, nice to know. > > > > Note that the latest upstream development version is star-1.5a67.tar.gz > > [1] and is CDDL licensed with the following slight modifications: > > Which constitutes a trademark violation at the very least (it's not > the CDDL any more) and quite probably a copyright one (the CDDL isn't > modifiable).
Interestingly enough he has already been told that he violates the CDDL itself [1]. Also a good dispute starts here (as mentioned by someone above) [2] and what I was surprised was the vigorous pushing of star and cddl into the obsd tree. So there are at least two kind of problems with cddl: *modifications in a weird way - which doesn't fit into the spirit of BSD *choice-of-venue and choice-of-law - floating sandy layers which could be dangerous for anyone on the Earth IMHO. [1] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-02/0407.html [2] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-02/thread.html#399 I feel that the author will convert sooner or later smake and cdrecord to cddl as a part of his anti-GPL campaign. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
