[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next]
[Thread Index]
[Date Index]
[Author Index]
[fab] cdrecord licensing and alternatives
- From: Rahul <sundaram fedoraproject org>
- To: fedora-advisory-board redhat com, List for Fedora Package Maintainers <fedora-maintainers redhat com>
- Cc:
- Subject: [fab] cdrecord licensing and alternatives
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:21:53 +0530
Hi
We still potentially have problems despite reverting back to a older
version of cdrecord before the relicensing of some parts of it into CDDL.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202526#c18
cdrecord versions 2.01a36 (circa 2004) and above has added restrictions
incompatible with the GPL license. The resulting mess is probably a GPL
violation and not redistributable at all.
This is a old issue and we have some possible solutions to this problem.
DVD-R tools is a fork of the code before this restriction was added.
http://lwn.net/Articles/174031/
There is also libburn+ assorted set of commands such as cdrskin,
genisofs which are drop in replacements for cdrecord, mkisofs
respectively available at http://libburn.pykix.org
Rahul
[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next]
[Thread Index]
[Date Index]
[Author Index]