Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> There is no approval process for free licenses within Debian:
>
> "Please note however, that the Debian project decides on particular 
> packages rather than licenses in abstract, and the lists are general 
> explanations. It is possible to have a package containing software under 
> a "free" license with some other aspect that makes it non-free."
>                                       
> http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/index.en.html

Why then did Debian decide around August 2006 that the CDDL is generally 
accepted?


> > 
> > Claim 2:    "The build system for a GPLd program needs to be under GPL"
> > 
> It is about linking, as part of the build process.

Please do not try to confuse people with FUD.

The main claim from Eduard Bloch on why there should be a problem with cdrtools
was of course:

Claim 2:        "The build system for a GPLd program needs to be under GPL"

Jörg

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