Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-28 Thread Johann Peter Dirichlet
2010/1/27 Joerg Schilling : > Gaurish Sharma wrote: > >> One more thing >> cdrtools required it to be run as root, isn't that dangerous. any >> method by which we give the required permissions to normal user? > > There are two possible solutions: > > 1)      Look at the turkish Linux distro that d

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-27 Thread Johann Peter Dirichlet
2010/1/27 Xavier Chantry : > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Aaron Griffin > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: >>> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:45 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Just to make it clear: There is not a single claim from a lawyer that confirms

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-27 Thread Johann Peter Dirichlet
2010/1/27 kludge : > On 01/27/2010 09:49 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: >> Am Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:17:01 -0500 >> schrieb pyther : >> >>> Look at the high-profile case of cdrtools vs cdrkit, though; it is >>> huge. You stated that sun spent 3 months looking into it. If for some >>> odd reason someone decide

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-27 Thread Johann Peter Dirichlet
2010/1/27 Allan McRae : > On 27/01/10 20:02, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> >> There was nothing but a social attack from a hostile person. Please show >> me a >> report from a single lawyer that proves that there is a legal problem with >> the >> original software. > > Please provide a report from a si

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-27 Thread Johann Peter Dirichlet
Well, after thinking about it (and talk with some friends, none lawyer), I just vote for "community cdrtools and dump cdrkit". I always think about supporting other operating systems, mainly FreeBSD and NetBSD, before taking place in disputes like this. "If the software can be ported to more platf

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-27 Thread Johann Peter Dirichlet
Just burning the question: what about other operating systems (yes, FreeBSD and family) about it? It appears to be the cdrtools VS cdrkit issue doesn't affect them, and in fact FreeBSD guys keep cdrtools as precompiled package but hold cdrkit as a source-only port. 2010/1/27 Allan McRae : > Joerg,