Hi Wayne
Being involved several GPL projects (two as project leader), I fully understand Jorg's viewpoint. To have to fix a problem of your own making is bad enough, but when someone else screws things up and others give you the flack...
Based on the assumptio that Jorg is the copyright holder on cdrecord, then he is within his rights to restrict the use of the package name.. However, the code appears to based on another work, so somehow, I doubt if his claims are enforcable.. (b.i.a.n.a.l.)
Regards, Paul.
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 20:12, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Essentially the gist of Jorg's statement is that changes within the terms of the GPL are only good if they (in his opinion) somehow improve the software, and that anything else is essentially deformation of character as his name ends up on a faulty (in his opinion) binary (despite it being next to several lines clearly stating that someone else has messed with it)