OSNews: CDRecord Modifies License; Mini-Editorial on the Issue

"Basically, the author of cdrecord modified its license to not allow modifications of his code by distros without doing so in cooperation with the author.

"Many critisized the author as a free software-sellout, however, in my opinion, the author has the right to do these modifications and so I am with him. Usually, when distros are zealously patching packages--any package--they create new bugs..."

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