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

[Kevin Dean]

Firstly, to Paul's comments..

I had TOTALLY forgotten that Firefox's crash reporter thingy WAS
non-free software in the truest sense. Because I forgot about that,
the reason I saw us maintaining BurningDog was trademark related. I
apologize to the entire list for constantly making that comparison
which was innacurate.



On Nov 14, 2007 4:00 AM, Markus Laire <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 wasn't aware that there were contributors that were objecting to the
license change.

>
> 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.

Okay, I did a search for this and I see the problem. mkisofs is still
GPL software but it calls in libscg which is now CDDL. Joerg certainly
has the right to change his libscg to CDDL - it just kills the
possibility of a binary package for mkisofs...

Hrm...