On Mo, 02 Feb 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > cdrecord-ProDVD becomes free for everyone
> > >
> > > later, someone takes parts of the cdrecord DVD code by reverse
> > > engineering and
> > > publishes patches that cause cdrecord to fail even with CD media.
> >
> > You are lying: Proof:
> >
> > From your website: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/README:
> >
> > NOTE: the DVD-recording drivers have been added to the OpenSource
> > part on May 15th 2006 with cdrtools-2.01.01a09.
> >
> > That was 2006.
> >
> > The first patch for adding DVD support to cdrecord I found in 1min
> > searching was for cdrecord 1.11a08:
> > http://www.abcpages.com/~mache/cdrecord-dvd.html
> > cdrecord 1.11 was already released before 2001. At that time
> > cdrecord-ProDVD was for sure not free.
>
> This is rather just another poor dumb attempt for lying from you!
>
> The code you are referring has been created by reverse engineering cdrecord.
> It has been published 2 weeks _after_ cdrecord-ProDVD was available for free.
Your wording:
"... becomes free for everyone"
which includes commercial operations etc etc, which was not true at the
time of 2001. Do you disagree?
Best wishes
Norbert
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