Comment 10 for bug 177154

It seems to me that a major part of the discussion here is whether it would be legal to distribute cdrtools if some of the people who contributed to cdrecord (and other parts?) under the GPL objected to the fact that it is now CDDL. Are those contributors known? If so, can't they be asked to clearly state whether or not they object? If they don't then there is no issue - if they do, then regardless of the legal situation it is probably best not to distribute their contributions, given that the FOSS community is based on the whole on good will and respect of other people's work. And even if tracking down the contributors is a bit tricky, there should be enough interested people to make the job easier - and perhaps the nice people at lwn.net could be asked to put a short article on their front page about the issue.