cdrkit isoinfo and iso-info

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 07/25/2009 04:45 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> Somewhat accurate, but problems were between between Debian/Debian packagers and Joerg.  The GPL was not helping out Joerg in anyway(like it is now forcing Micro$oft to release those 20,000 lines of code) and He(Joerg) decided that he needed a better license and moved to the CDDL which is/was a license setup by Sun.  People took advantage of code and were not held liable/responsible and the author took a different route.  This is why things happen like they do.  
> 
> As a matter of fact, some linux distributions still have original cdrtools in their distros and have no problems with anyone.  But this is another thing. 
> 
> In this situation and for the original poster, it would be recommended that he keep things as they are and not get into problems/incompatibilities.  cdrkit while not the original does a decent job, I like the comparision like Coke and Pepsi, I like to drink Coke, but if not available I can drink the Pepsi without troubles :)
> 

We have had this discussion before and your understanding of the
licensing issues remain incomplete. The cdrecord maintainer didn't move
to CDDL completely. He cannot since he had accepted patches from others
under the GPL license. If he had somehow moved to CDDL completely, there
wouldn't be a problem. The fork was primarily forced due to the mixing
of CDDL and GPL'ed files. cdrecord had licensing issues even before that
but this pushed things over the edge. No mainstream binary distribution
includes cdrecord anymore as a result of this problem. They simply cannot.

Microsoft violated the GPL license and then had to comply to avoid
embarrassment and made a PR show out of it. Hardly the fault of the
license.

Rahul