Not cdrtools did change the license first but cdrtools was attacked
by a Debian packager (Eduard Bloch) This person before did
publish a lot of FUD against the project already and introduced
bugs into the Debian variant of cdrtools. The license change was
a _reaction_ on the attacks from Mr. Bloch and definitely not the
cause.

Mr. Bloch is a social problem for OSS and he did cause a lot of trouble….

He did introduce a lot more bugs into the forks and soon stopped
working on it. By doing this, he confirms that he does not have the
needed skills for working on a program suite like cdrtools. Before
he did claim he knows everything better than the original author.

Every user may decide himself on whether he will follow the ill
religious claims from Mr. Bloch and use a broken fork or whether
he likes to use the well maintained original software.

There is definitely no legal problem with cdrtools, the Sun legal
department makes it very clear that there is no such problem.
THe fork however is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus cannot
be distributed legally.

BTW: the CDDL was not made intentinally incompatible to the GPL,
but the GPLv3 was made intentionally incompatible with the GPL.
Nobodiy seems to care about this problem…..

See http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html for the real background.

If you like to do us the OSS community a favor, put some effort
in helping to tell others about what realy happened. I am working
on OSS since 1982 and I still do and I will of course do anything
that is needed to make sure that my software stays usable for
the community.