[Fedora-legal-list] cddl license in cdrtools

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 26 09:33:28 UTC 2009


Roman Rakus wrote:
> Hi.
> I have found cddl licesne is OK, but not GPL compatible. May I use 
> cdrtools in Fedora? If not, why?

You cannot afaik. CDDL is a free and open source but GPL incompatible 
license. The problem with cdrtools is that, it is a mix of GPL and CDDL 
licensed filed that makes them undistributable by anyone except the author.

http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/

Rahul





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