cdrecord licensing and alternatives

[Rahul]

Michael J. Knox wrote:
> 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?
> 

Thats is DVD-R tools referenced above.

Rahul