Comment 46 for bug 213215

I am not sure how I should interpret the text in comment #44. To me it
looks as if it has been written by a very unfriendly person but I am open
for a different explanation if possible...

Let me recapitulate:

In May 2004 a new and unfriendly Debian packetizer started to attack
the cdrtools project because his broken patch for mkisofs was not accepted.

As this packetizer also was extremely lazy, he did not upgrade cdrtools since
he started his new "job" and as a result many problems that have been a result
of incompatible linux kernel interface changes become obvious and users
complaint a lot.

In summer 2005, this person started a red herring by claiming that cdrtools
have a license problem.

In late September 2006, Debian "upgraded" to a cdrtools version from
Septemer 2004 and added many new bugs. In December, Debian removed
important Copyright notices for the original author from the code.

In May 2007, the last substancial change has been introduced into the Debian
"fork". Since then, only typo corrections have been applied.

Well, the lawyers from Sun, the lawyers from Oracle and the lawyers from Suse
confirmed that there is no license problem with the original code. Even Eben
Moglen confirmed this in a private mail to me.

So what is the reason for Ubuntu to prevent people from being able to use
working legal original software and why does Ubuntu still distribute "cdrkit"?