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

[Chris Andrew]

Kevin,

Sometimes this is the only way to get some issues resolved.  Well done!

Cheers,

Chris.

On 14/11/2007, Kevin Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yeah, it's a very interesting case...
>
> Joerg pointed something else out to me that we REALLY need to look
> into when gNewSense 2.0 comes around.
>
> There are a BUNCH of applications that have GPLv2 or later and some
> projects will upgrade to version 3. However, 2 and three are
> incompatible, (like the CDDL and GPL) and some upgrades might actually
> make the software undistributable in binary form. :P
>
> I'm trying to find out what is the "best" solution to this. Obviously
> the entire package is Free Software now and obviously we're quite able
> to distribute the source. The problem is that the BINARIES can't be
> distributed because we can't meet the terms of both the GPL and the
> CDDL at the same time.
>
> On Nov 14, 2007 11:18 AM, Markus Laire <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Kevin Dean wrote:
> > > On Nov 14, 2007 4:00 AM, Markus Laire <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >> 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 wasn't aware of any objections. Just some questioning of whether Joerg
> > Shilling had the authorization from all copyright-holders to change the
> > license (of mkisofs IIRC).
> >
> > I asked that because I understood your message to mean that whole
> > cdrtools (including mkisofs) had been changed to CDDL. But if the
> > license of mkisofs hasn't been changed, then this question doesn't seem
> > to be relevant. (But then a GPL <=> CDDL problem is still there, as you
> > say below.)
> >
> > >> 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...
> >
> > --
> > Markus Laire
> >
>
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