cdrecord permission problems

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Mon, 7/7/08, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> From: Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: cdrecord permission problems
> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Cc: olivares14031 at yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 11:12 AM
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:33:04 -0700 (PDT)
> Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > --- On Mon, 7/7/08, Alan Cox
> <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> > > Subject: Re: cdrecord permission problems
> > > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > > Cc: davidsen at tmr.com
> > > Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 8:52 AM
> > > > Note that cdrecord doesn't come with
> Fedora, there
> > > is a link by that 
> > > > name which leads to wodim. The usual drill
> is to
> > > change group on 
> > > 
> > > wodim is the free software fork from cdrecord
> with other
> > > stuff added.
> > cdrtools is also free.  What makes wodim
> 'freer'
> > 
> > http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
> 
> The DVD version of cdrecord was payware while the DVD
> support in wodim is not.
True, but wodim is still based on cdrtools an old version of it, they can still look at the code and take parts of it, it is open source.  BTW, there was a way to get a key from Jorg.  I think that people needed to request it.  The DVD parts were not opensource and thus had to be kept that way.  

<quote from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/README>
	This directory includes binary versions of cdrecord-ProDVD
			for various platforms


	NOTE: the DVD-recording drivers have been added to the OpenSource
	part on May 15th 2006 with cdrtools-2.01.01a09.

		See ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

There is no longer a need for a key.
</quote>
Good thing to know that wodim also burns DVD's.  growisofs would also do this if needed. And users also have cdrdao to use when wodim fails.  It is great to have all these tools at our disposal.  

I have both like I have said, and would use the other when one fails

[olivares at localhost ~]$ cdrecord --version
Cdrecord-yelling-line-to-tell-frontends-to-use-it-like-version 2.01.01a03-dvd 
Wodim 1.1.6
Copyright (C) 2006 Cdrkit suite contributors
Based on works from Joerg Schilling, Copyright (C) 1995-2006, J. Schilling
[olivares at localhost ~]$ /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord --version
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a42 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2008 J�rg Schilling
[olivares at localhost ~]$ 

Regards,

Antonio 

> 
> Alan