Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luis Medinas wrote:
> Hi
>
> Back in the day that all major distros switched to cdrkit (fork from
> cdrtools) i was one of the maintainers (at the time maintainer on Gentoo
> Linux) that made a decision to ship cdrkit by default and start porting
> applications to cdrkit (brasero and ncb). This decision was mainly to
> follow every distros at the time and get all maintainers together since
> cdrtools switched license and debian maintainers questioned this
> problem[1]. Now days cdrkit development is almost dead[2] and this piece
> of software is full of bugs that noone wants to fix. As a solution i
> propose to review cdrtools license (Sun says it's ok) and replace cdrkit
> by cdrtools on O:F. Joerg (cdrtools author and maintainer) seems much
> more friendly now days and very responsive to the bugs.
> We also have recent packages available on home:/hennichodernich/
>
> Can we consider this ?
>
> Also i would like to see libburn on O:F but since it's on X11:XFCE with
> the opening of Factory this package will be merged there am i right ?
>
>
> 1- http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html
> 2- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debburn-changes/

Joerg was adamant that Linux should change to handling CD's his way and 
no other and after much heated and protracted argument, there was a 
parting of ways - cdrkit which I thought was in no way based on cdrtools 
as the license didn't allow it.
Last time I looked, cdrtools was under the CDDL in addition to Joerg's 
own original license.
I can't see any enthusiasm for having to deal with that author again.
Regards
Sid.
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