Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932308AbWBPQMT (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:12:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932312AbWBPQMS (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:12:18 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:57753 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932308AbWBPQMS (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:12:18 -0500 Message-ID: <43F4A533.1040900@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:15:47 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Albert Cahalan , matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) References: <787b0d920601241858w375a42efnc780f74b5c05e5d0@mail.gmail.com> <43D7A7F4.nailDE92K7TJI@burner> <787b0d920601251826l6a2491ccy48d22d33d1e2d3e7@mail.gmail.com> <43D8D396.nailE2X31OHFU@burner> <787b0d920601261619l43bb95f5k64ddd338f377e56a@mail.gmail.com> <43DE8A06.9010800@tmr.com> <1138659135.16102.30.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1138659135.16102.30.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1044 Lines: 30 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 CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/