Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Bill Davidsen]

Lee Revell wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 16:49 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>  
>
> > Look a year down the road, when we have have two (or more) new 25GB 
> > optical formats coming out, probably with new features and commands
> > and several vendors building drives for them. Both formats have DRM
> > stuff in them, and GPL 3 forbids implementing DRM (simplification). 
> >    
>
> Who cares what GPL 3 says, the kernel is GPL2.

Did you miss the subject? My reply was to a suggestion that cdrecord 
(it's not the kernel!) be forked, and discussion of what license MIGHT 
apply. I was making an information point about an application which is 
very important to a lot of people.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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