"Gary L. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 07 November 2003 10:08 pm, John Allen wrote: >> As I said above, Fedora includes dvdrtools (a fork of cdrtools), should >> Mandrake include it instead of/as well as cdrecord. >> >> http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/ > > Bero is the main developer of the dvdrtools package. The reason for the > fork, is that cdrtools is weirdly licenced. One branch is GPL, while the > other (the "official" branch that supports DVD writing support) is > propreitary and closed, yet includes patches from the GPL branch. > > If MDK is truely aiming at having only open tools, then you should include > this instead of cdrtools. This eliminates a potentially "grey" solution.
dvdrtools is based on a old version of the DVD patch (which I am maintaining) which is actually included into mandrake cdrecord in a newer version. -- Warly
