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

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

Features

The collection includes many features, such as:

• creation of audio, data, and mixed (audio and data) CDs.
• burning CD-R, CD-RW and DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD+RW, both single and dual layer DVDs.
• several burning modes, such as Track-At-Once and Disc-At-Once
• cue sheet based writing using the control file format from cdrwin including enhancements for ExactAudioCopy
• ability to process Blu-ray Discs
• understanding and exploitation of many vendor specific drive features.

Licensing

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

In version 2.01a36, a section of cdrtools' source code was modified to include an invariant section, thus making the file incompatible with the GPL. In versions starting with 2.01.01a09, most code from cdrtools has been relicensed under the CDDL, which the Free Software Foundation considers incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL), 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.

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 the ability to use UTF-8 with mkisofs, create multi extent files (> 4 GB) with mkisofs, create correct hard links with mkisofs, and write Blu-ray Discs.

Compatible operating systems

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Forks

• cdrkit
• DVD-R Tools

Software that can use cdrtools

• Brasero (Unix-like)
• cdrtfe (Windows)
• cdw (Unix-like)
• GnomeBaker (Unix-like)
• Graveman
• InfraRecorder (Windows)
• K3b (Unix-like)
• X-CD-Roast (Unix-like)

References

1. Clausecker, Robert (19 September 2022). "New features with AN-2022-09-18". The schilytools project. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
2. Schilling, Jörg (10 December 2017). "cdrtools 3.02a09 announcement". cdrtools.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
3. http://blog.gerv.net/2004/08/unredistributab/
4. Jörg Schilling. "Cdrtools (Cdrecord) release information". Retrieved 2007-08-04.
5. "Various Licenses and Comments About Them - Common Development and Distribution License". Free Software Foundation. Retrieved 2006-12-31.
6. Jonathan Corbet. "cdrtools - a tale of two licenses". Retrieved 2007-08-04.
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.

External links

• Official website
• cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

• Free optical disc authoring software
• Free DVD burning software
• Linux CD/DVD writing software
• Optical disc authoring software
• Console CD ripping software
• Linux CD ripping software
• OS X CD ripping software