Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote: > > > > maybe you do not know who Joerg Schilling is > > > > he is the one person claiming he is the only one writing a > > working cd-burning software on earth and his fights against > > GPL and Linux are legend over the years > > > > http://lwn.net/Articles/199061/ > > http://slashdot.org/story/06/09/04/1335226/debian-kicks-jrg-schilling > > http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/ Mr. Corbet is not interested on the truth but likes to play games against OSS. He publishes unproven claims and does not give a place to correct his fault. > All I have to say about that is that I wish the GPL were not so > restrictive that it prohibits many potential best-of-breed > combinations of components. But that was it's intent and it isn't > likely to ever change. I'm just glad that people like Larry Wall > understood that early-on and used dual-licensing to make at least some > software usable in more situations. . Don't believe the attacks against OSS from Debian, Mr. Corbet and similar. Sun legal, Oracle legal and even Eben Moglen confirmed that cdrtools is without legal problems. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily