diff --git a/cdrskin/cdrskin.c b/cdrskin/cdrskin.c
index b83bb99..d81d000 100644
--- a/cdrskin/cdrskin.c
+++ b/cdrskin/cdrskin.c
@@ -84,13 +84,22 @@ restart of libburn.
 
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 This program is currently copyright Thomas Schmitt only.
-I, Thomas Schmitt, commit myself to grant to anybody on mere request the right
-to use this under BSD license, i.e. completely free of the special obligations
-of GPL. But note well, it is here and now only granted under GPL.
-Any person with a BSD license is explictely entitled to grant a GPL with
-or without changes to a BSD licensed original. Nothing else is intended
-by me. It is only that i want to grant others the same rights that i claim
-effectively for me. And for me i do claim the rights of a BSD license.
+The copyrights of several components of libburn.pykix.org are willfully tangled
+at toplevel to form an irrevocable commitment to true open source spirit.
+We have chosen the GPL for legal compatibility and clearly express that it
+shall not hamper the use of our software by non-GPL applications which show
+otherwise the due respect to the open source community.
+See toplevel README and cdrskin/README for that commitment.
+
+For a short time, this place showed a promise to release a BSD license on
+mere request. I have to retract that promise now, and replace it by the
+promise to make above commitment reality in a way that any BSD conformant
+usage in due open source spirit will be made possible somehow and in the
+particular special case. I will not raise public protest if you spawn yourself
+a BSD license from an (outdated) cdrskin.c which still bears that old promise.
+Note that this extended commitment is valid only for cdrskin.[ch],
+cdrfifo.[ch] and cleanup.[ch], but not for libburn.pykix.org as a whole.
+
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 Compilation within cdrskin-* :