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

[Markus Laire]

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...

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Markus Laire