Jörg Schilling has died

Re:Jörg Schilling has died by rhabarba on Monday October 11, 2021 @05:56PM (#28833559)

> While it has not been brought to court, some lawyers, include the Free Software Foundation’s legal counsel, feel the CDDL may be incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Which is irrelevant as the code does not contain any GPL code, right?

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Re:Jörg Schilling has died by strenholme on Monday October 11, 2021 @06:38PM (#28833886)

The cdrtools stuff is GPL because Schilling maintained the code after Eric Youngdale [1] stopped working on it.

[1] Youngdale at one point was one of the Yggdrasil Linux developers, for people using Linux long enough to remember that long since abandoned distro.

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Re:Jörg Schilling has died by rhabarba on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:51PM (#28835184)

Ah! I see. Thank you, I missed this part of the story.

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