Re: The legality of cdrecord

Joerg.Schillingfokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
writes:

> "John Halton" <johnhaltongmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > As has been said already, the GPL does allow
non-GPL code to
> > appear in GPL projects, but it requires that code
then to be
> > distributed under the GPL. But to do so may
infringe the licence
> > for that non-GPL code.
> 
> This is a false claim! The GPL does not require to
change the
> license of such other code and any lawyer would laugh
on you as this
> would be illegal.
> 
> If you still belive it, give a proof by sending an
apropeiate quote
> from the original GPL text.

This has already been provided in this thread.

For those following along with this thread, Jörg has either
chosen not
to respond to Message-ID: <87abpqdivx.fsfbenfinney.id.au>
<URL:http://mid.gmane.
org/87abpqdivx.fsfbenfinney.id.au>, or is not
reading the list in which this discussion is taking place.
Either of
which are his own problem to fix.

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[...] is about as |
  `         relevant as the question of whether submarines
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W. Dijkstra |
Ben Finney


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