Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts <at> alum.mit.edu> writes: [...] > 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.
Hello, This was about the recent change of license in a36 that was widely covered in the news, e.g. lwn or heise.de http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/006193.html We (cdrools Debian maintainers) were in indeed private contact with Joerg about this and successfully managed to resolve this, a38 undid the newly introduced non-freeness issue, the code in question (linuxcheck()) is not encumbered by a specific license anymore, it may be removed like anything else. This is resolved and completely orthogonal to this thread, so please ignore it. cu andreas
