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cdrtools
Developer(s)Jörg Schilling
Stable release3.0 / June 2, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-06-02)
Preview release3.02a09 (10 December 2017 (2017-12-10)) [±]
Repository
Operating systemcross-platform
TypeCD/DVD/BluRay-writing
LicenseCDDL, GPL
Websitecdrtools at berlios.de

cdrtools (formerly known as cdrecord) is a collection of independent projects of free software/open source computer programs, created by Jörg Schilling and others under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

The most important parts of the package are cdrecord, a console-based burning program; cdda2wav, a CD audio ripper that includes libparanoia support; and mkisofs, a CD filesystem image creator. Because these tools don't include any GUI, many graphical front-ends have been created (see Software that can use cdrtools section).

Features

The collection includes many features, such as:

Licensing

The project was originally licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

In versions starting with 2.01.01a09, most code from cdrtools has been relicensed under the CDDL, while other parts, such as mkisofs, are still licensed under the GPL. Jonathan Corbet, founder of the LWN.net news source argued this change makes it impossible to legally distribute cdrtools binaries while several lawyers explain why combinations with software under GPL and other different licenses usually are collective works that is permitted by the GPL.

Debian, Red Hat, and Mandriva dropped the versions of cdrtools with CDDL code from their distributions. The Debian project created cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools. In August 2008, Mark Shuttleworth offered to ask the Software Freedom Law Center for a legal opinion on whether cdrtools could be included in Ubuntu, provided Schilling agreed to accept the opinion.

Since the licensing change, cdrtools added some bug fixes and new features, such as UTF-8 support for mkisofs, support for multi extent files (> 4 GB) in mkisofs, support for correct hard links in mkisofs and Blu-ray support in cdrecord.

Supported operating systems

Forks

Software that can use cdrtools

See also

References

  1. Schilling, Jörg (10 December 2017). "cdrtools 3.02a09 announcement". cdrtools.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  2. Jörg Schilling. "Cdrtools (Cdrecord) release information". Retrieved 2007-08-04.
  3. Jonathan Corbet. "cdrtools - a tale of two licenses". Retrieved 2007-08-04.
  4. http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf Lawrence Rosen OpenSource Licensing
  5. http://www.osscc.net/pdf/QualipsoA1D113.pdf Thomas Gordon for an EU OSS-Project: Licensecompatibility
  6. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tlavian/publications/article/Berkeley%20Law%20Journal%20softwarecombinations060403.pdf Lothar Determan: Software combinations as Derivative Works?
  7. "#377109 - RM: cdrtools -- RoM: non-free, license problems - Debian Bug report logs". Retrieved 2007-08-04.
  8. "Information for build cdrtools-2.01-11.fc7". Retrieved 2007-08-04. moved back to version 2.01 (last GPL version), due to incompatible license issues
  9. "[Fedora-legal-list] Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora".
  10. "Mandriva Cooker : The Inside Man V". Retrieved 2007-08-04.
  11. "cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test". Retrieved 2007-08-04.
  12. "Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2008-08-26". Retrieved 2008-09-15.

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