Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Måns Rullgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> 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... >>> >>> While legally you're right, I think from a point of view of politeness >>> you're wrong. >> >> Go read some postings by JS and you won't feel any need for >> politeness. > > I've read them. It doesn't seem any worse than the drivel which shows > up here regularly. Joerg tells Alan Cox he doesn't know anything > about Linux systems or security. People here say things about that > ridiculous once a week -- you've seen them too.
Add to that an arrogant center-of-the-world attitude (you can't change the kernel now, cdrecord is in code freeze pending release and similar statements). > On the other hand, I find this message interesting: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/19/111 > > In particular, he seems to be relying on German "Authors' Rights", and > claims to be in discussion with Debian people. That's nearly a month > ago. More specifically, he claims to be in discussion with Debian how to stop SuSE from doing what they have every right to do. I know nothing about German law, so I can't comment on that bit. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]
