Joerg Schilling wrote:
Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
They claimed that the official build system was not legal but they replaced
it with a build system that definitely is not legal because it is not
included in the source.
Of course the files needed to build cdrkit are in the source (CMakeLists.txt).
Does any program that uses autotools come with the complete build system?
Where does the GPL say that the buildsystem has to be included in the
distributed source package?
cdrkit uses cmake to build and that's available under a 3-clause BSD license
which is said to be GPL compatible.
Please point to a cmake with a 3 clause BSDl!
http://www.cmake.org/HTML/index.html, under License, says:
CMake is distributed under BSD License
Copyright (c) 2008, Kitware, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Also note: They claim that the build system needs to be published under the GPL.
But it is obviously illegal to change the license of other people's software.
1. The email that *you* quoted in *your* defense clearly points out the
incorrectness of your claim. The exact words were:
"For our fork we used the last GPL-licensed version of the program code
from Cdrtools [5] and killed the incompatibly licensed build system."
I assume that your build scripts, like everything else in your cdrtools
package that you have control over, are licensed under the CDDL. (I
can't confirm as the tarballs seem to be missing from your FTP site.)
That is what the Debian maintainers are referring to as the
"incompatible build system". They have replaced it with CMake *build
scripts* that are GPL licensed.
2. The BSD license makes it legal to re-release the code under a
different license as long as the copyright notice is retained, so you're
wrong on *both* counts.
Before you accuse others of spreading FUD about your project, perhaps
you should stop the practice yourself.
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