http://lwn.net/Articles/199061/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "cdrecord - how the distributors are responding". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/200391/rss 2006-09-22T05:34:39+00:00 xorbe So ship an RPM that contains the source and compiles on the user's machine. There's really not much difference...<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/200374/rss 2006-09-21T21:16:40+00:00 EmbeddedLinuxGuy <i>So the problem is that "Shilling is hard to work with" or that the license is bad?</i> <p> The license is incompatible with the GPL. cdrecord can't legally be distributed in binary form. That's the problem. <p> <i>that's open source to me.</i> <p> Of course the CDDL is an open source license. Problem is, the CDDL code must be linked with GPL code, and the GPL prohibits that. This is not about picking on Schilly or niggling over what's free software / open source / etc; it's just distributions trying to meet their legal obligations. http://lwn.net/Articles/200283/rss 2006-09-21T12:02:32+00:00 jfj So the problem is that "Shilling is hard to work with" or that the license is bad? Both do not apply.<br> <p> Personaly, I can download/view/compile/hack the source code of cdrtools, so that's open source to me. I guess some distributions feel that way.<br> <p> Maybe, instead of forking cdrtools, the distributions that make money should contribute some back to Schilling for his hard work. That'd persuade him to keep up the good work. But then, gcc and valgrind and qemu also deserve large amounts of cash. The cash flow is broken and it goes to the wrong ends, I say.<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/199803/rss 2006-09-17T04:14:28+00:00 stock This is a serious blow to the OSS DVD extensions objective : <br> <br> "The objective is to give cdrtools dvd extensions without imposed limits, <br> and also to have a Open Source solution to burn dvd's. " <br> <br> "The OSS DVD Extensions for cdrtools are licensed under the GNU Public <br> License (GPL)." <br> <br> As cdrtools itself was GPL Licensed, the combination with OSS DVD <br> extensions supplied a popular solution for GPL-ed DVD burning on Linux <br> machines. I guess not so anymore. I wonder what Schilling's motives and <br> objectives are for this move. I invite him to make a proper and honest <br> motivation for selecting the CDDL license for cdrtools, as on his webpage <br> seems to lack essential details on this. <br> <br> Robert M. Stockmann <br> OSS DVD : <a href="http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd.html">http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd.html</a> <br>