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The-cdrtools-project

Page history last edited by Paul G. Taylor 15 years, 4 months ago

While looking for some information on command-line burning of CDs, I stumbled onto the origninal site of the cdrtools project and learned some rather interesting and important information about this and the 'fork' that is currently replacing this in some distros, including my version of Klikit-Linux.

 

[code]paul@PAULS-Klikit:/$ cdrecord -version

Cdrecord-yelling-line-to-tell-frontends-to-use-it-like-version 2.01.01a03-dvd

Wodim 1.1.2

Copyright (C) 2006 Cdrkit suite contributors

Based on works from Joerg Schilling, Copyright (C) 1995-2006, J. Schilling

paul@PAULS-Klikit:/$ 

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From this it is clear that my system is not using the latest version of cdrtools from the main project, but rather the 'fork' that is not currently being actively developed, has lots of old bugs which the original project has fixed and has a limitation of 4 GB which the original project is no longer subject to.

 

For more information on this controversy and the best way to get the better software, see this site : --

 

Linux controversy

 

[quote]In May 2004, a Debian packet maintainer (Eduard Bloch) started to send repeated personal insults to Jörg Schilling after one of Bloch's patch requests against mkisofs was rejected because it was full of bugs.

In March 2006, a group of Debian maintainers started to attack the cdrtools project.

The latter attacks have been based on the fact that cdrtools was licensed under the GPL. As a result, on May 15th 2006 most projects from the cdrtools project bundle have been relicensed under CDDL (giving more freedom to users than the GPL does). At the same time, an important amount of additional code (DVD support code from Jörg Schilling and a Reed Solomon decoder from Heiko Eißfeldt) has been added to the freely published sources.

In summer 2006, the attacks from the group of Debian maintainers escalated and in September 2006, these people created something they call a fork from cdrtools. They soon added a lot of bugs and this way turned the "fork" into a questionable experiment. The last work on this "fork" has been done eight months later on May 6th 2007, then the leader of the attacks stopped his efforts. During the Debian project activity, the source code distributed by Debian was modified in a way that violates GPL and Copyright and makes it impossible to legally distribute this "fork" called "cdrkit". There is no license problem with the original cdrtools.

Although there is no "project" activity on the "fork" anymore since 18 months (which is more than twice the time of the speudo activity period), there are still people who spread incorrect claims on both the original project and the fork. Please help the free original project by correcting these incorrect claims.

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