[Bug 213215] Re: Please include original cdrecord (cdrtools) package in Ubuntu

[Schily]

Mr. Glaubitz is well known to spread hostile personal attacks at various places.
just search for "glaubitz" or "cbmuser".

Matteo, your assessment was right. People with a real objection would be able to
verify their claims. 

As you can read in comment #46, the problem was initiated by two people at Debian 
that do not act in a social way and started personal attacks and attacks against
the cdrtools project in May 2004. This ended in an unverified claim of suposed legal
problems in cdrtools.

In Summer 2008, Mark Shuttleworth proposed a plan to work around the Debian
initated problem but later in 2008, he made it obvious that he will never honour his
promise.

What may help is the fact that currently three companies made a full legal review for
cdrtools and all as a result decided to include the original cdrtools in their distro. The
last  company that made a full legal review was SuSe (in Autumn 2013). As a result,
SuSe now includes cdrtools again even though there have been several anonymous
threats from Debian people (those people could be de-anonymized) in the bug tracking
system from SuSe.

The Linux distros that still do not ship cdrtools are distros that did never ask a specialized
lawywer.

BTW: libburnia is still not supporting all features that cdrtools
supported 10 years ago.

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  Please include original cdrecord (cdrtools) package in Ubuntu

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