Feature changed by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #311186, revision 5 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. + #3: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) (2011-02-07 13:07:03) (reply to + #2) + Any documents to back up your claims? I am particularly interested in an + official and verifiable statement for Novell. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311186