Hello, As you might have noticed cdrdao is dead at moment, it is GPLv2 but requires the included non-free library libedc_ecc. See #162788.
Please take a look at http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite@other.debian.org/index.html#03405 before you post any answers, the short sum up is not the whole story. cdrtools uses this library, too, the license is: ---------------------------------------- The libedc_ecc sources are protected intellectual property of Heiko Eißfeldt. The libedc_ecc sources are definitely not under GPL. Heiko Eißfeldt grants a special permission to use this library limited to the following projects: - cdrecord/cdrtools - cdrdao - vcdimager You may not use this library in any other project without prior getting the explicit permission from Heiko Eißfeldt. If you are using this library in a project that has been permitted to use libedc_ecc, you need to modify the license of your project in a way that it will not affect the license of libedc_ecc. If your project is licensed under GPL, you need to modify the license in a way that section 2 (commonly called GPL infection) does not apply to libedc_ecc and does not change the licence of libedc_ecc in any way. ---------------------------------------- IANAL and don't understand the whole issue, but Joerg Schilling says he has got explicit permssion to use it in cdrtools, but any derived version without explicit permission from libedc_ecc's author would be illegal, imho this includes Debian's cdrtools package. I hope you can make more sense out of this than I could. Sorry for the low quality of my English, and _please_ read the thread. Perhaps Debian could solve this issue once and forever by paying 250 Euros to libedc_ecc's author, Heiko Eißfeldt? http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite@other.debian.org/msg03424.html cu andreas PS: Please Cc me on replies.
