__/ [ Linonut ] on Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:35 \__
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00002.html
>
> So, why the fork? CD/DVD burning is a complicated business that needs a
> lot of knowledge, so forking such a big collection isn't a step to be
> taken lightly. It requires a lot of development effort that could be
> put to better use elsewhere.
>
> In the past, we, the Debian maintainers of cdrtools, had a good and
> mutually cooperative relationship with Jörg Schilling. He even
> commented on Debian bug reports, which is one of the best things an
> upstream maintainer can do. Naturally, there were occasionally
> disagreements, but this is normal.
>
> Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and Jörg Schilling
> released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license.
> The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL. The FSF itself says that this
> is the case as do people who helped draft the CDDL. One current and
> one former Sun employee visited the annual Debian conference in Mexico
> in 2006. Danese Cooper clearly stated there that the CDDL was
> intentionally modelled on the MPL in order to make it GPL-
> incompatible. For everyone who wants to hear this first-hand, we have
> video from that talk available at [2].
>
> I suspect cdrkit may be updated in a more timely fashion from now on.
> I also hope they cleansed Jörg's sarcastic remarks about fsync and other
> Solaris totems, and his stupid little frownies :-(
>
> Don't let the Sun set on you.
Maybe he's a Sun Microsystems schill (sic). Look what googling the name
brings up.
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=50&hl=en&c2coff=1&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=joerg+schilling&spell=1
Is he human?
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