cdrecord licensing and alternatives

[Michael J. Knox]

Rahul wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> We still potentially have problems despite reverting back to a older 
> version of cdrecord before the relicensing of some parts of it into CDDL.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202526#c18
> 
> cdrecord versions 2.01a36 (circa 2004) and above has added restrictions 
> incompatible with the GPL license.  The resulting mess is probably a GPL 
> violation and not redistributable at all.
> 
> This is a old issue and we have some possible solutions to this problem. 
> DVD-R tools is a fork of the code before this restriction was added.
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/174031/
> 
> There is also libburn+ assorted set of commands such as cdrskin, 
> genisofs which are drop in replacements for cdrecord, mkisofs 
> respectively available at http://libburn.pykix.org
> 

What about Bero's fork of cdrecord?

Michael