Hi, > Do not be quiet when people try to act against OSS.
To act against OSS is not a crime and Debian is not the enemy of OSS. Your quarrel with them belongs to the category of Intersecterian Feud. It does not serve your reputation. > 2) By writing a library, it ignores usual privilige rules > and thus makes portability impossible. I assume that you refer to dynamic linking and eventual security restrictions. Well, not on Linux and not on FreeBSD. But i will not outrule the possibility. On source code level the library architecture means that there is a neat API between application programs and burning of optical media. The way of linking is at the discretion of the GPL application programmer. I prefer to bundle all sources which are needed for xorriso and to have not even static libraries involved. Just .o files. Linux packagers on the other hand prefer to have three .so libraries and a dynamically linked xorriso binary. So the xorriso tarball is standalone whereas the library tarballs bring their reference apps as dynamic cripples. As part of libisoburn there is: xorriso. People can pick what they want. > 1) It is not portable - cdrtools work anywhere. > Collaboration is much more productive. As proposed earlier: how about you help with a Solaris port of libburn ? The interface between libburn and operating system dependent code is clearly defined. Another proposal is to make your peace with Linux and to re-unite with cdrkit. That would mean, of course, that you have to leap over your shadow: Pure GPL and/or LGPL, the promise to do as the Linuxers do when being in Linuxtown, maintaining a civilized communications interface with Linux eminences ... toats to swallow. The toats are the consequence of the position in which you allowed yourself to get. You have the choice to see your work spoiled in the Linux world, or to paddle back and to suffer personal pain for the sake of getting cdrkit out of the Linux distros. You won't win this by fighting. Zorry everybody for the german metaphors. At least you got no german poetry from me. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
