Wodim trouble

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 3 22:23:05 UTC 2009



On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> You seem to miss that the license mkisofs is using is called "GPL" and not
>> "GPL FAQ", so the quoting you mention do not apply.
>
> The FAQ is the legal interpretation of the GPL given by the FSF, who are the
> folks who wrote the license, so why would you trust them less than Sun's
> lawyers? And Eben Moglen, whom you misquoted as agreeing with your bizarre
> position, was actually involved in writing both the GPL itself and the FAQ.
>
>> The GPL requires the entire work to be under GPL and the "entire work
>> mkisofs" _is_ of course under GPL.
>
> The entire work includes any code which is linked into the same executable,
> statically or dynamically. A program is not complete without its required
> libraries, it doesn't work at all without them.

This thread is closed.

Do not comment on it anymore.

Sincerely,

Your friendly neighborhood hall monitor.
-sv




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