[CMake] cmake license question (Was: CMake Modules)

[Jamie Jones]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 21:55 +0100, James Mansion wrote:
> >Yes a GPL'd app can use a Cmake build system. The cdrecord issue is more
> >about how one person is out of touch with the rest of the world on what
> >the GPL says. Pay no attention to that person.
> 
> This is bull.  Paying no attention to what Joerg says is a mistake.
> You might disagree with the focus of portability that caused him to
> be in disagreement with particular distribution maintainers, but
> he's no fool.
> 
> And 'we don't like Joerg' is *NOT* the reason why systems *claim* to
> have reverted - it is indeed because he's started to licence his build
> stuff under CDDL, which is a bona-fide free license, just one the FSF
> doesn't like.  And it may in fact be that distributing such a build
> system as part of a GPL package is inadequate.  Of course, its not
> necessary to provide a makefile - a GPL'd shell script that compiles
> the world each time would have done.
> 
> Stupid GPL stuff, if you ask me - but you didn't, so who cares.
> 

Actually James - the issue is he has mixed incompatible licenses (GPL
and CDDL) in the cdrecord source, and it's not just the build system.
Both are Open Source Licenses, but *are* incompatible with each other.
His claim is that they are compatible. He needs to sort out which
license that work is under. It doesn't help that he doesn't listen to
others. So in that respect - pay no attention to him.

Some of us more cynical people believe that he does know the licences
are incompatible, but he has done this so users must get cdrecord from
his site and not, as he puts is "a bastardised" version from a *NIX
distribution, as he seems very unhappy to see cdrecord modified.

Regards,
Yagisan
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