Re: [Cooker] I noticed that Fedora includes dvdrtools

[Warly]

"Gary L. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Friday 07 November 2003 10:08 pm, John Allen wrote:
>> As I said above, Fedora includes dvdrtools (a fork of cdrtools), should
>> Mandrake include it instead of/as well as cdrecord.
>>
>> http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/
>
> Bero is the main developer of the dvdrtools package. The reason for the 
> fork, is that cdrtools is weirdly licenced. One branch is GPL, while the 
> other (the "official" branch that supports DVD writing support) is 
> propreitary and closed, yet includes patches from the GPL branch.
>
> If MDK is truely aiming at having only open tools, then you should include 
> this instead of cdrtools. This eliminates a potentially "grey" solution.

dvdrtools is based on a old version of the DVD patch (which I am
maintaining) which is actually included into mandrake cdrecord in a
newer version.

-- 
Warly

Re: [Cooker] I noticed that Fedora includes dvdrtools

[Gary L. Greene]

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On Friday 07 November 2003 10:08 pm, John Allen wrote:
> As I said above, Fedora includes dvdrtools (a fork of cdrtools), should
> Mandrake include it instead of/as well as cdrecord.
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/

Bero is the main developer of the dvdrtools package. The reason for the 
fork, is that cdrtools is weirdly licenced. One branch is GPL, while the 
other (the "official" branch that supports DVD writing support) is 
propreitary and closed, yet includes patches from the GPL branch.

If MDK is truely aiming at having only open tools, then you should include 
this instead of cdrtools. This eliminates a potentially "grey" solution.

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[Cooker] I noticed that Fedora includes dvdrtools

[John Allen]

As I said above, Fedora includes dvdrtools (a fork of cdrtools), should 
Mandrake include it instead of/as well as cdrecord.

http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/

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John Allen,  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MandrakeClub Silver Member.  http://johnallen.kicks-ass.net/