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Michael Schreckenbauer ha scritto: |
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> and I for myself drop cdrkit in every place I find it and replace it with the |
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> imo working tool named cdrecord. |
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Sure, your choice. |
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>> The problem is that of a tool that for licence etc. problems could be |
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>> easily be dropped from a distribution. It's of a relatively unreliable |
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>> developer (or, better stated, of unrealiable relationships between the |
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>> dev and the community). |
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> I have no problems at all with Jörg, quite the opposite. |
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It's not *you* that has to have problems with him. It's distributions. |
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See below. |
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>> Given this, I would think twice before |
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>> substituting tar with a Schilling tool. The cdrecord scar is still painful. |
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> Good programmers often have big egos. See Linus for an example. When will |
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> distributions drop the kernel, because Linus made bad comments about gnome, |
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> cups or some other random program? |
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> The tool (star, cdrecord) works, is well supported and the programmer reacts |
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> in time to requests. What else do you expect? |
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The problem with cdrecord (and J.S.) is that in a new version of |
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cdrecord he bundled CDDL and GPL code together, thinking that it's right |
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to distribute such an hybrid binary. |
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Debian and a large number of other distros think instead that you cannot |
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legally distribute a CDDL+GPL hybrid thing. So, to avoid legal concerns, |
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they had to remove cdrecord from the distribution and fork the last GPL |
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(or CDDL?)-only version of cdrecord. |
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In our case: if you use a tool like that in your scripts and suddenly |
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the Gentoo devs feel that tool has to be removed/replaced (not the case |
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of cdrtools in Gentoo apparently, but...), you are in trouble. It's not |
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matter of who is right/who is wrong (I personally have no serious |
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opinion on that, because I didn't enter into the issue), but J.S. |
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refused any attempt to settle down the problem with the Linux |
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distribution, only putting blame on them and telling them "oh who cares, |
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f**k you". That's why someone has harsh opinions on him and can't trust |
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relying on his tools. |
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OTOH, I agree he's a truly skilled developer. |
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m. |
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