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| In May 2004, a Debian packetizer started to attack the cdrtools project because his broken UTF-8 patch for mkisofs could not be accepted by the upstream project. This was later turned into a license dispute between the Debian maintainers and cdrtools author Jörg Schilling.<ref name="Debian Bug report logs - #377109">{{cite web| url= http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377109 | title=Debian Bug report logs - #377109}}</ref> The Debian developers assert that the ] license is not compatible with the ] license that covers part of the cdrtools code.<ref name="Debian Bug report logs - #377109">{{cite web| url= http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377109 | title=Debian Bug report logs - #377109}}</ref> In contrast, cdrtools maintainer Jörg Schilling states that there is no problem with the license<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html#legal|title=There is no license problem in the original cdrtools|accessdate=16 August 2011}}</ref>, and also asserts that the Debian fork is not legally redistributable.<ref>{{cite web | |||
| |url=http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html#violations | |url=http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html#violations | ||
| |title=The Debian fork violates the GPL and the Urheberrecht | |title=The Debian fork violates the GPL and the Urheberrecht | ||
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| Developer(s) | Debian Project |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.1.11 / October 17, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-10-17) |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | CD/DVD-writing |
| License | GPL version 2 |
| Website | www.cdrkit.org |
cdrkit is a collection of computer programs for CD and DVD authoring that work on Unix-like systems. cdrkit is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. ArchLinux, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, openSUSE and Ubuntu all include cdrkit. Joerg Jaspert is cdrkit's leader and release manager.
It was created in 2006 by Debian developers as a fork of cdrtools.
History
In May 2004, a Debian packetizer started to attack the cdrtools project because his broken UTF-8 patch for mkisofs could not be accepted by the upstream project. This was later turned into a license dispute between the Debian maintainers and cdrtools author Jörg Schilling. The Debian developers assert that the GPL license is not compatible with the CDDL license that covers part of the cdrtools code. In contrast, cdrtools maintainer Jörg Schilling states that there is no problem with the license, and also asserts that the Debian fork is not legally redistributable.
Schilling has also claimed that the cdrkit fork reintroduced various bugs from the first versions of cdrtools, which were already fixed in later cdrtools versions.
Components
Major components include:
- wodim (an acronym for write optical disk media), which was forked from the cdrecord program in cdrtools.
- icedax (an acronym for incredible digital audio extractor), which was forked from the cdda2wav program in cdrtools.
- genisoimage (short for generate ISO image), which was forked from the mkisofs program in cdrtools.
Front-ends
Other software can use cdrkit tools in the back-end. cdrkit tools will maintain interface compatibility with cdrtools 2.01.01a08 at least for the near future. Numerous programs can therefore use it, including K3b.
wodim and cdrecord differences
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The most recent version of cdrecord, as of April 2011, was version 3.01a04.
Wodim is based on cdrtools-2.01 (from September 9 2004) and the wodim version that shipped within Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 (as of spring 2011) had version number 1.1.9 - a file from October 26 2008.
cdrecord provides functionality for blue ray devices, all DVD and CD media and localization support.
See also
References
- ^ "cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test". Retrieved 16 August 2011. Cite error: The named reference "cdrkit uploaded" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ "Debian Bug report logs - #377109".
- "There is no license problem in the original cdrtools". Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- "The Debian fork violates the GPL and the Urheberrecht". Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- "What are the problems when running programs from the broken fork?". Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- New features with AN-2011-04-22
External links
- cdrkit website
- cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test (fork announcement)
- Cdrtools - why do Linux distributions create bad forks?, essay by Jörg Schilling referring to cdrkit without mentioning its name
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