Re: [gNewSense-users] Trademarks In gNewSense and the status of the CDDL License

[Markus Laire]

Kevin Dean wrote:
> I've been bouncing e-mails back and forth between Joerg Shilling
> pertaining to the cdrecord issues that have been raised several times.
>
> Essentially, we've worked the issue down as far as we can go and I
> think we both clearly understand each other.
> <SNIP>
>
> If gNewSense accepts this license then it means by upgrading cdrtools
> we can close a bug - newer versions of cdrtools have moved to a CDDL
> license solving the issue with the build system and the CDDL
> specifically grants authors the right to require modified versions not
> use any trademarks.

What about the question whether Joerg Shilling had the right to change 
the license from GPL to CDDL or not?

I seem to remember that when this was discussed in Debian's 
mailing-lists, there was a comment that Joerg Shilling didn't have the 
right to change the license from GPL to CDDL for some parts of the code, 
for which he isn't the only Copyright-holder.

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Markus Laire