On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 09:30:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
I would prefer to restore proper attribution since I don't share this opinion.
From: Friedhelm Mehnert Just to be complete; the reason why the cdrtools are not in debian is not a license issue, but rather a personal war between some debian developers and Jörg Schilling.
On 27/11/2025 03:05, Michael Stone wrote:
That's false, but getting into the details now that he's dead is pointless.
Jörg is dead, nobody wants to fix bugs in cdrkit. Maybe it is time to consider current state trying to keep aside personal conflicts.
Libburnia is currently maintained. More work is necessary however e.g. to make their tools as default in k3b. Maybe some steps are necessary to push current cdrkit users to the supported alternative.
Second option still may be helpful in some corner cases and for users faced a bug. It is a reason why I decided to forward Friedhelm's message.
Is it true that SUSE decided that they can provide packages for cdrtools without real risk? Is their decision is specific to Germany? Should other distributions reconsider their stance?
If licensing issues are not severe then next bunch of questions becomes reasonable. Have technical complains raised 20 years ago still valid or code has evolved significantly (e.g. elevated privileges, device addressing)?
Maybe somebody has links describing balanced position.
