Glenn Maynard writes: >On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:19:26AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: >> <Joerg Schilling> >> Please note that this is just the way I interpret the GPL and as this >> is my software, users should follow my interpretation of the GPL and not >> use their own different interpretations. > >This came up previously: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/10/msg00398.html > >I concur with Mathieu Roy: this is not an interpretation that follows >from the GPL. The GPL clearly says you can do certain things and can >not do certain other things; this "interpretation" contradicts the >text of the GPL. > >I don't think it's safe to distribute a work where the author says one >thing in his license text and a different thing in his "interpretation". >This person does not want the GPL; he wants something else. > >I do not believe that granting a license and then applying a bizarre >"interpretation" or "clarification" to those terms is an acceptable >approach to setting license terms. > >I also don't think Debian should distribute works that claim to be under >the "GPL" when they're being modified by weird "interpretations". > >(This is only my own opinion, of course, and not necessarily Debian policy.)
Joerg's changes are clearly non-free; I've not seen anybody arguing otherwise. We basically need to route around him at this point, and fork from a previous free version. His ridiculous statement that his new statements also apply to older (GPL) versions of cdrtools should just be ignored as the puffery that it is IMHO... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer
