Feature changed by: Tim Edwards (tk83) Feature #311186, revision 3 Title: original cdrtools Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: openSuSE distributes the package wodim instead of the package cdrtools. The reason this happens is a claim of the Debian maintainers that the present license of the package cdrtools is incompatible with GPL. However, even if it were the case, it does not make a good reason to exclude cdrtools from openSuSE. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: cdrtools is better maintained and it is less buggy. Discussion: #1: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) (2011-01-31 22:22:32) See also: Many Linux distributions now come with broken variants of cdrtools (http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html) + #2: Tim Edwards (tk83) (2011-02-07 12:39:23) + This topic has been done to death, not least in the huge flamewar on + the Debian mailing list between the cdrecord author and some of the + Debian developers. It's not based on some half-arsed claim by the + Debian maintainers either: all the major distributions, including the + commercial ones Redhat and Novell, have looked at the legal + implications of the license on cdrecord and determined that they can't + legally distribute it. + This is a very good reason for not including cdrtools in Opensuse. + Plus, cdrkit (wodim etc.) is still being developed. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311186