cdrkit
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| cdrkit | |
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| Developed by | Debian Project |
| Latest release | 1.1.8 / May 25, 2008 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | CD/DVD-writing |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www.cdrkit.org |
cdrkit is a collection of computer programs for CD and DVD authoring that work on Unix-like systems.
The creation of cdrkit was initiated by the Debian project, as a fork of cdrtools. cdrkit is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.
Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, openSUSE and Ubuntu all include cdrkit.
Joerg Jaspert is cdrkit's leader and release manager.
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[edit] Components
Major components include:
- wodim (an acronym for write optical disk media), which was forked from the cdrecord program in cdrtools.
- icedax (an acronym for incredible digital audio extractor), which was forked from the cdda2wav program in cdrtools.
- genisoimage (short for generate ISO image), which was forked from the mkisofs program in cdrtools.
[edit] Front-ends
Other software can use cdrkit tools in the back-end. Because cdrkit tools maintain interface compatibility with cdrtools programs, numerous programs can use it, including:
[edit] Fork
cdrkit was created by Debian package developers forking the cdrtools project because of licensing issues.[1][2]
Jörg Schilling, the primary developer of cdrtools, changed cdrtools to use a new build system under a CDDL license. The Debian developers who packaged cdrtools stated publicly that Debian could no longer distribute cdrtools because the GPL forbids packaging GPL code with a dependency upon non-GPL code. Debian developer Don Armstrong suggested dual-licensing as one possible solution. Jörg Schilling argued that there was no license problem, and did not agree to make any changes to cdrtools.[3] There was also a history of licensing decisions by Schilling which were problematic for Debian maintainers.[4] Faced with an impasse, the Debian developers made copies of the last cdrtools source files licensed under the GPL, renamed the tools, and released the result under the GPL as cdrkit.[5] Jörg Schilling stated on the cdrecord website that the whole licensing issue is a "fairy tale" fabricated by people who "needed an excuse for their behavior", and called the fork an attack on the cdrtools project.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.
- ^ cdrtools - a tale of two licenses.
- ^ Debian Bug report logs - #377109.
- ^ Debian Bug report logs - #265546. Debian Bug report logs - #270060.
- ^ Jaspert, Joerg (2006-09-04). cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test. Debian Development Announcements email list. Retrieved on 2006-09-24.
- ^ Cdrtools - why do Linux distributions create bad forks?.
[edit] External links
- cdrkit website
- cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test (fork announcement)
- Cdrtools - why do Linux distributions create bad forks?, essay from Jörg Schilling referring to cdrkit without mentioning its name
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