On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Simone Caronni <negativo17@gmail.com> wrote:

On 23 October 2013 22:17, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Susi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

IANAL, but I believe the same reasons that prevent inclusion of
CDRtools into Fedora prevent it from inclusion into RPMFusion. The
program is breaking free software licenses (CDDL linking GPL and the
two are incompatible by design of CDDL), which makes redistribution (in
binary form) impossible.

To be fair, Jorg believes that CDDL linking to GPL is not a problem, but Fedora legal felt otherwise. I think it would be fair to say that the license compatibility is unclear. I also looked at using an alternative C library (Clang) but I'm not enough of a programmer to do that.

I think the most relevant part for banning cdrtools was the behaviour of the main developer :)

Agreed. Jorg is very intelligent, but his people skills leave much to be desired. :) And it doesn't help that he refuses to change the license, or that he doesn't like make and had to come up with his own replacement, smake.

So do you think this unclear compatibility means a no-go for RPMFusion inclusion? Or on the contrary could be included due to "relaxed" licensing compared to Fedora?
FreeBSD ships some patches for compiling CDRtools with Clang, if I can assemble the package with it would be ok?

I would say, "possibly". You'd need to make sure it doesn't link to anything "GPL"...

$ ldd cdrecord

linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffbe9fe000)

libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003f1c400000)

/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003f1c000000)

But if you can do that, then it could technically go back in Fedora.

Richard