[gNewSense-users] cdrtools package suspected not to be free

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Hi people,
After reading what the problem is with cdrtools I think it is not a
matter of software freedom, but only the author wanting its product to
appear as 'original' or 'derived' to the final user.
It reminds me the Firefox-Iceweasel issue, where the people at Mozilla
only said something as 'if you modify your versión of Firefox beyond
this or that point, you have to use a different trademark, just for
the user to know it is not the original thing from us'.
I don't think this would be a bad thing. RMS said about that issue
that a logo is not important for practical means, and that is what I
also think.
In this case, if gNS uses a modified version of cdrtools, just adding
the indicated statement is not an problem for the technical use of the
program.
Or so it seems to me.

Regards.

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