Eric Wanchic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, man all of you guys are awesome! Thanks. I'm still having issues, ....
> Thomas Schmitt: > - I've got some more stuff, but as soon as I post this, I'll write > another one mentioning what I've done so far. Thanks (^_^) Please note that Thomas (in contrary to the people who created the wodim fork) writes own software but unfortunately his software is non-portable and only works on Linux. All my software works on all known platforms. Well, Linux is the post popular open platform, but Solaris is the second popular open platform and Thomas software does not work on Solaris. Also note that even the idea of writing a CD/DVD writing _library_ is based on a privileges missconception that is only present on Linux. Even Linux only allows a limited subset of what cdrecord supports if you do not have root privileges. The idea of having such a library comes from GUI people that like to _include_ the CD/DVD writing features into their GUI, but they do not understand that this cannot be done on all platforms but Linux for security reasons. On Linux it only works in a limited way because Linux ignores some security issues. There exist several similar attempts on writing libraries for tasks that cannot exist on platorms other than Linux because other platforms better check privileges/security. All these other libraries are derivates from cdrtools code and all also have license problems. This makes a lot of functionality seen in GNOME on Linux illegal because of license violations and non-portable because of privileges violations. I write a lot of software and I give long term support, the oldest OSS program I wrote (star) is from 1982. Doing this for many platforms takes more time but also gives better code quality. > Bill Davidson: > That's some good advice about root permissions and issues. I "think" > I'm running in root. I have the root account disabled (defaulted in > ubuntu) and I am executing everything in "sudo -i" environment. I see > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" So I'm sure I am root, but if I'm wrong please correct my > errors. Bill _was_ a respected person ~ 7 years ago. He did have a lot of knowledge and he was helpful in his replies. Aprox. 2-3 years ago, he converted into a troll and frequently gives incorrect replies even though he has been corrected many times. I recommend not to believe him. You need root privileges for cdrecord _and_ you need to have them for wodim also if you like to do the same things. This is a result of the constraints set up by the Linux kernel. I would be happy to see him stop trolling and to come back to real life again. > Joerg Schilling: > I am but a humbled student here among respected teachers. I've read a > lot, mostly your view points, about this whole licensing mess, the It is hard to explain complex legal issues if other people before did spread FUD and used oversimplified and wrong phrases that look correct only because they are oversimplified. If you like to verify legal claims, you need to check the possible results of these claims for many different use cases (this is really similar to thinking about possible failure cases on software). I did already explain why the main claim from the Debian people is wrong: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html#license There is another claim that (if it was correct) would make > 50% of all software illegal on Linux and it would completely disallow non-GPL software on Linux. It is obvious, that GPL interpretations that make _all_ software illegal cannot be right..... The main problem with Debian is that they never ask lawyers, even in critical situations. All legal claims from Debian are claims from laymen. > Multi-border aware? I'm not sure what that is, but it sounds like your > still working on that. I'll be patiently waiting then :) > >Cdrecord did not write the medium in a way that allows appending - see > cdrecord -info output. Didn't I wrote -minfo? And btw: Multi-border is the official name for DVD handling for what people call multi session. > -info-output switch. I think I posted my -minfo. Did you want me to burn > another CD again and copy its output? Just let me know what you need. Thanks I know how to write Multi-border DVDs, I did this a year ago already. I cannot put it yet into the official cdrecord for stabiltiy reasons. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
