Added upcoming clarification of copyright and license aspiration

trunk/cdrskin/README

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             libburn.pykix.org    scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin
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-Installation instructions at about line 50. First the legal stuff:
+Installation instructions at about line 60. First the legal stuff:
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-This all is under GPL. Wether it can become LGPL is currently very unclear.
+This all is under GPL.
-(So for now see explanation and GPL reference at the end of this text)
+(See GPL reference, our clarification and commitment at the end of this text)
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+Based on and sub project of:
+libburn.pykix.org
+By Mario Danic <mario.danic@gmail.com> and Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
+Copyright (C) 2006 Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt
 
+libburn.pykix.org is inspired by and in other components still containing
+parts of
 Libburn. By Derek Foreman <derek@signalmarketing.com> and
             Ben Jansens <xor@orodu.net>
 Copyright (C) 2002-2006  Derek Foreman and Ben Jansens
-
+See toplevel README for an overview of the current copyright situation in
-Mario Danic <mario.danic@gmail.com>, Luke Biddell <luke.biddell@gmail.com>,
+libburn.pykix.org.
-Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in> , Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
-Copyright (C) 2006 Mario Danic, Luke Biddell, Anant Narayanan, Thomas Schmitt
 
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 My thanks to the above authors (except myself, of course) for making the
@@ -32,6 +36,8 @@ compatibility wrapper which allows to use some libburn features from
 the command line.
 Interested users of cdrecord are invited to participate in the development
 of cdrskin. Contact: scdbackup@gmx.net or libburn-hackers@pykix.org .
+We will keep copyright narrow but will of course acknowledge valuable
+contributions in a due way.
 
 
 Important :
@@ -293,7 +299,7 @@ a command line that would do the trick, contact me or libburn.pykix.org .
 I myself am not into audio. So libburn-hackers@pykix.org might be the
 best address for requests and bug reports.
 
-Lorenzo also reports of a frontend tool which he italked into burning
+Lorenzo also reports of a frontend tool which he talked into burning
 automatically extracted files via cdrskin:
   http://www.bigpaul.org/burn/
 which in its configuration file burn.conf would need something like this
@@ -331,20 +337,6 @@ It will not read startup files, will abort on option  dev_translation= ,
 will not have a fifo buffer, and will not be able to put out help texts or
 debugging messages.
 
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-It is my understanding that you may put a binary of unchanged cdrskin on any
-suitable system if you only tell the user that the source is available for
-free in the internet. Search engines will find it. Better than any URL here.
-
-If you link to the libraries or if you make changes in our source, you will 
-currently have to release your own programs under GPL and nothing else, i fear.
-As it looks no single one of us currently has the right to issue any other
-license.
-You may submit source changes which affect our standalone binaries and if
-they get included you may distribute binaries derived from our new code base.
-
-signed: Thomas Schmitt (and his understanding of GPL), author of this README.
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     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
     Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
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+cdrskin is currently copyright Thomas Schmitt only.
+It adopts the following commitment by the toplevel copyright holders:
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+
+We, the copyright holders, agree on the interpretation that
+dynamical linking of our libraries constitutes "use of" and
+not "derivation from" our work in the sense of GPL, provided
+those libraries are compiled from our unaltered code.
+
+Thus you may link our libraries dynamically with applications
+which are not under GPL. You may distribute our libraries and
+application tools in binary form, if you fulfill the usual
+condition of GPL to offer a copy of the source code -altered
+or unaltered- under GPL.
+
+We ask you politely to use our work in open source spirit
+and with the due reference to the entire open source community.
+
+If there should really arise the case where above clarification
+does not suffice to fulfill a clear and neat request in open source
+spirit that would otherwise be declined for mere formal reasons,
+only in that case we will duely consider to issue a special license
+covering only that special case.
+It is the open source idea of responsible freedom which will be
+decisive and you will have to prove that you exhausted all own
+means to qualify for GPL.
+
+For now we are firmly committed to maintain one single license: GPL.
+
+signed for cdrskin: Thomas Schmitt