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

[Schily]

This article on "enterprise...." is wrong - sorry.

What really happened is this:

In 2004, Debian decided to attack the cdrtools project, created a buggy
fork (illegally under the original name) and stopped distributing the
original software in May 2004.

After 2 years of attempts to solve this problem failed, and the FSF did
not help against the attacks against the still 100% GPLd cdrtools, the
cdrtools project was relicensed to CDDL on May 15 2006. At the same
time, Debian was told to stop distributing their fork under the original
name.

As a result, Debian renamed their fork to "cdrkit", keeping all the >
100 bugs they introduced since May 2004. So the timeline verifes that
Debian is lying.

The article you are referring is also technically wrong: All CD-ROM
drives ever made are SCSI drives and cdrtools honor this fact.

As a site note, it seems to be of interest that aprox. 50 of the Debian
specific bugs in cdrkit are related to missunderstanding the SCSI / IDE
story. The original software never had these bugs.

The only problem was that Linux-2.6 introduced an incompatible SCSI
kernel interface that needs a different method to get the needed
permissions that previous Linux releases. While cdrkit did never
introduce support for this kernel incompatibility problem, the original
cdrtools include a workaround.

BTW: since Mark Shuttleworth decided to include ZFS in UBUNTU, he
admitted that there is no license problem (as spread by the deffamation
from Debian) because ZFS is under CDDL and ZFS + the Linux kernel create
a so called "collective work" that is permitted by the GPL.

mkisofs works the same way and links a GPLd program against a CDDL
library which is accepted by the FSF, as otherwise GNU tar would be
illegal on OpenSolaris.

All other software from the cdrtools is 100% CDDL, so UBUNTU should
finally kick off the buggy and unmaintained cdrkit and re-introduce the
maintained cdrtools.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Burning Team, which is subscribed to cdrtools in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213215

Title:
  Please include original cdrecord (cdrtools) package in Ubuntu

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/213215/+subscriptions