[gentoo-desktop] Re: mp3 to cd audio

[Duncan]

Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU> posted
20070606142034.GA30712@×××××××××.edu, excerpted below, on  Wed, 06 Jun
2007 10:20:34 -0400:

> Wait... when did this happen? I thought cdrtools (which is still in
> portage) *is* the original cdrecord? or am I completely confused?

Maybe it's me that's screwed up then.  I know the license changed some, 
and saw the discussion on the dev list, then later checking for cdrecord 
and not seeing it I assumed it was gone as a result.  However, it appears 
I was checking the wrong name and they just added cdrkit, and didn't 
remove cdrtools as I thought because I was looking for the wrong thing.

Thanks for pointing that out to me!

FWIW, the issue is that parts of it are now CDDL licensed.  The CDDL is 
GPL incompatible which puts folks shipping the binaries in an iffy 
situation since parts of it are still GPL licensed.  Joerg S. has never 
been particularly easy to work with, so while it /might/ have been safe 
taking him at his word as the general author (but AFAIK not the /only/ 
author), as with xfree86/xorg, many are switching to cdrkit.  However, 
due to the from-source nature of Gentoo, it's in a bit different position 
and should be able to legally continue the package, as a user can do 
whatever on their local machines and won't run afoul of the issue, as 
long as they don't distribute the resulting binary.  I just thought 
Gentoo had gone the rest of the way and removed it anyway, but it appears 
I was incorrect, since I was looking for the wrong package name and 
attributed its missing to the licensing issue, not the wrong name.

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