On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:10:50PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>Steve McIntyre writes ("Re: Processed: Forwarding to the technical committee"):
>> I believe that Eduard has already come up with a GPL-compatible build
>> system to use with cdrtools, but he is nervous of the possible
>> consequences of applying such a patch. Joerg Schilling has apparently
>> been getting threatening in email discussion over the last few days;
>> there is a long German thread on this in the alioth pkg-cdrtools-devel
>> mailing list.
>
>I can't seem to find a public archive of pkg-cdrtools-devel. Could
>you help me out by providing a pointer ?For some reason (?), it's not a public archive - it's linked from http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-cdrtools-devel as Joerg points out. >> In the face of such an aggressive upstream author with strong and >> controversial opinions about the GPL, forking may be a difficult >> option. Complete removal from Debian might be a better option, but I'd >> like some other opinions on this before we go to such lengths. > >IMO if we can fork it and remain confident of (a) our legal standing >and (b) out ability to maintain the code then we should probably do >so. > >What's the state of the alternatives to cdrecord ? As far as I'm aware, there are a few alternatives for the simple functionality of cdrecord, but there is no other Free Software that covers all of its functionality. I'm actually more worried about mkisofs - there isn't any comparable software for making ISO9660 filesystems, and it's a much more complex piece of software. There is a fair amount of expertise available to maintain forked code if necessary. Finding the time to do it is more of an issue, as always... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis
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