Comment 47 for bug 213215

@Schilly

If the-unfriendly-who-was-not-named made a bogus claim about licensing but then (as you pointed out) went to the dark side of the law by actually breaking your copyright, isn't it simpler to just SUE his @$$ and then get Debian fixed ?
(For the downstream distros that are still reluctant, such as Ubuntu, you could just point them to the result of the lawsuit or even to the preliminary paperwork and also the the ppa repositories so they can switch even before Debian does.)

I know it sounds harsh, it is, but any person making people burn a lot of coasters and a lot of time just for a lousy patch (and possibly sent some users back to windoze) can go to hеll in my book and .... burn all he wants with all the patches he wants.
And since the closest thing to hell is the justice systsem, there's the suggestion above.

And I also realise that you already worked a LOT on this (and I'm hoping you continue to do so for newer optical drives like BD-R etc if you haven't already done so), but you're the only one who can sue the-unfriendly-who-was-not-named. If you don't have time, see if any association could do it pro bono on your behalf (and with your proper authorization, of course).