Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Firstly, the cdrkit source ships with all of the cmake scripts that are
> needed by cmake to build the project. This is all that is required by
> the GPL.
>
> And before you tell me to "look again" or "go read something" or
> whatever -- I did. I have the cdrkit source tarball right here, and I'm
> looking at the files in question. I also have a copy of the GPL, which
> says exactly this: "plus the scripts used to control compilation and
> installation of the executable". Note there is no requirement that the
> actual *build tools* be included, only the scripts used to control them.
> Otherwise it would be illegal to ship any GPL'd program without the
> entire source to make, gcc, binutils, sed, awk, cat, etc.
Well, now that you found this out, does this mean that you finally concur with
me that Bloch & Co. are license trolls?
You may have no experiences with the systematic ways to prove/disprove things
I use, but you still found that it is ridiculous to claim that the GPL requires
you to _include_ the complete toolchain _under_ _GPL_.
And because it is ridiculous to claim that the GPL requires you to include the
toolchain, it is of course ridiculous to tell people that "the schily
makefilesystem" (being a independently developed program) needs to be part of
cdrtools.
The next step in understanding why Bloch is a license troll is to understand
that _iff_ Bloch/Debian seriuosly believe that "the schily makefilesystem" is
part of cdrtools and needs to be published under GPL together with cdrtools,
then _of_ _course_ the same applies to "cmake" which is just a replacement
for "the schily makefilesystem".
Jörg
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