The cdrecord debate

[Thomas Canniot]

Le vendredi 29 décembre 2006 à 21:05 +0100, David Nielsen a écrit :
> Shortly before FC6 was released we backed down to an older version of
> cdrecord because of conflicts between the GPL and the CDDL licenses.
> Debian also at that point forked cdrecord into cdrkit and other
> alternatives like libburn exist as well. There seemed at that point to
> be a concensus that we should stick to cdrecord for FC6 and talk about
> replacing it for FC7 since we were already far long into the FC6 cycle.
> Don't change horses in the middle of a stream and all that.
> 
> So what is the plan here are we going to stick with an old version of
> cdrecord or will we be looking for alternatives?
> 
> - David Nielsen
> 
It's been a long time cdrecord was broken into fedora. I think we should
move to cdrkit of debian : it based on cdrecord and its licence stands
as our. Moreover, I think we can trust Debian for the quality of
software development.
-- 
Thomas Canniot
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasCanniot