No good CD-Rom copy software (fwd)

[NoOp]

On 06/29/2009 04:04 AM, Res wrote:
> 
> Forwarded to the list with approval.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:36:42
> From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de>
> Subject: Re: No good CD-Rom copy software
> 
> Hi,
> 
> wodim is a dead fork from a 5 year old version of cdrtools.
> It contains many bugs that never have been in the original software.
> Wodim is a result from a non-cooperative downstream package maintainer.
> 
> If you like to use recent working software, I recommend you to use the official
> original software from:
> 
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
> 
> The other programs that have been mentioned in the thread are just GUI
> frontends for cdrtools and of course suffer from not using the original
> software.
> 
> Jörg
> 
> 

These links might make for rather interesting reading:

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html
  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrtools/+bug/177154
[cdrtools is undistributable]
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrtools/+publishinghistory
and see where wodim stepped in:
<http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=cdrecord&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all>