Alternatives to cdrecord

Posted Aug 19, 2004 8:57 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

the official cdrecord won't burn DVD's (without patching it first, which is one of the options listed)

Posted Aug 19, 2004 11:40 UTC (Thu) by duck (guest, #4444) [Link]

Hey, even if you do not agree with the author, there is no reason to
insult him - I do not agree with him either, but he _did_ release cdrecord
under the GPL. So you even have a well working reference implementation,
or a starting point if you want to fork.

I really think that it is the authors freedom to stop development of a
project or to change the license if he is not happy with the direction of
the development. Not only should users be free to use and modify software,
but they should also respect the work that somebody donated to them. Even
if the author has a rather big ego that clashes with other big egos.

So let us hope that somebody picks up the existing work and and continues
the development of a great piece of software.

Cheers

Posted Aug 19, 2004 15:40 UTC (Thu) by jre (guest, #2807) [Link]

There's no need to insult Jörg Schilling, or even to resent him.
He released cdrecord under the GPL, and the result is a healthy flowering of perfectly legitimate extensions.

Jörg Schilling has now released a DVD-recording extension under a proprietary license. He views a number of patches to cdrecord as technically ill-advised, and has attempted to limit their use. He may even regret that he released cdrecord under the GPL under the first place.

All this makes no difference, because the genie is out of the bottle.
Everyone's freedom to study, modify, improve and redistribute Jörg Schilling's original work is guaranteed by the GPL, just as it should be.
Instead of pointing to this fact in a spiteful way (which only gives comfort to GPL opponents), we should celebrate the stable basis for progress that the GPL creates, even when a software author changes his mind.

In other words, let's try to make Jörg Schilling glad he did the right thing!