This package was first debianized by Erik Andersen andersee@debian.org. The current debian maintainer is Joerg Jaspert Co-Maintainer: Eduard Bloch It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ HomePage is at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html Upstream authors: Joerg Schilling and others. The package contains also parts of zisofs-tools, downloaded from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/. Upstream Author: H. Peter Anvin Copyright: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * cdrecord -- Record data on a CD-Recorder Copyright (c) 1995-2004 J. Schilling License: GPLv2 with the following additional requirement: - You may not modify certain copyright messages in cdrecord.c See cdrecord.c for further information. - You may (with a few exceptions) not modify the location of the configuration file /etc/default/cdrecord. See defaults.c for further information. cdrecord.c says (but see below): ------------------------------------------ | Warning: you are not allowed to modify or to remove the | Copyright and version printing code below! | See also GPL § 2 subclause c) | | If you modify cdrecord you need to include additional version | printing code that: | | - Clearly states that the current version is an | inofficial (modified) version and thus may have bugs | that are not present in the original. | | - Print your support e-mail address and tell people that | you will do complete support for this version of | cdrecord. | | Or clearly state that there is absolutely no support | for the modified version you did create. | | - Tell the users not to ask the original author for | help. | | This limitation definitely also applies when you use any other | cdrecord release together with libscg-0.6 or later, or when you | use any amount of code from cdrecord-1.11a17 or later. | In fact, it applies to any version of cdrecord, see also | GPL Preamble, subsection 6. | | I am sorry for the inconvenience but I am forced to do this because | some people create inofficial branches. These branches create | problems but the initiators do not give support and thus cause the | development of the official cdrecord versions to slow down because | I am loaded with unneeded work. | | Please note that this is a memorandum on how I interpret the GPL. | If you use/modify/redistribute cdrecord, you need to accept it | this way. | | | The above statement is void if there has been neither a new version | of cdrecord nor a new version of star from the original author | within more then a year. ------------------------------------------ For that Andreas Metzler had a mail conversation with Joerg, the last and important mail is included below, except an unrelated part I removed. Its in german, translation follows after the original mail. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Joerg Schilling Subject: Re: Geaendertes Copyright in a36 To: ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:10:31 +0200 >From ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at Thu Aug 19 18:04:42 2004 [...] >und im Rahmen des Zulaessigen[1]. >Darf ich nochmal nachbohren: linuxcheck() faellt auch nicht unter >"you are not allowed to modify or to remove the Copyright and version >printing code below!"? Darf geaendert werden. und ich habe auch absichtlich ein "Loch" gelassen, so dasz jemand den uname() Test mit einem automatischen Patch versehen kann. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ------------------------------------------------------------ And now the english translation of the mail above. Only content: ------------------------------------------------------------ Andreas asks: Let me ask again: linuxcheck() is not restricted with "you are not allowed to modify or to remove the Copyright and version printing code below!"? Jörg answers: It is allowed to change this and I have a "gap" there intentionally, so one can change the uname() check with an automated patch. ------------------------------------------------------------ Thats not a Debian-specific license and it only leaves the version printing stuff in cdrecord.c. Which is allowed from GPL. defaults.c says: ------------------------------------------ | WARNING you are only allowed to change this filename if you also | change the documentation and add a statement that makes clear | where the official location of the file is why you did choose a | nonstandard location and that the nonstandard location only refers | to unofficial cdrecord versions. | | I was forced to add this because some people change cdrecord without | rational reason and then publish the result. As those people | don't contribute work and don't give support, they are causing extra | work for me and this way slow down the cdrecord development. ------------------------------------------ * cdda2wav Copyright 1998-2003 Heiko Eissfeldt parts (C) Peter Widow parts (C) Thomas Niederreiter parts (C) RSA Data Security, Inc. License: GPLv2 * mkisofs Written by Eric Youngdale (1993). Copyright 1993 Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated Copyright (c) 1999,2000-2004 J. Schilling APPLE_HYB James Pearson j.pearson@ge.ucl.ac.uk 22/2/2000 License: GPLv2 * libedc compact disc reed-solomon routines (c) 1998-2002 by Heiko Eissfeldt, heiko@colossus.escape.de (c) 2002 by Joerg Schilling License: GPLv2 libfile - code from file(1) (c) Ian F. Darwin, 1987 License | This software is not subject to any license of the American Telephone | and Telegraph Company or of the Regents of the University of California. | | Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on | any computer system, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject | to the following restrictions: | | 1. The author is not responsible for the consequences of use of this | software, no matter how awful, even if they arise from flaws in it. | | 2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either by | explicit claim or by omission. Since few users ever read sources, | credits must appear in the documentation. | | 3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be | misrepresented as being the original software. Since few users | ever read sources, credits must appear in the documentation. | | 4. This notice may not be removed or altered. libhfs_iso - Modified version of libhfs (v2.0) to work with mkhybrid. (C) 1996, 1997 Robert Leslie License: GPLv2 libcdparanoia (C) by Monty (xiphmont@mit.edu) Modifications to make the code portable Copyright (c) 2002 J. Schilling License: GPLv2 readcd Copyright (c) 1987, 1995-2003 J. Schilling License: GPLv2 * * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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