Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, John Moser wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jason Crain wrote: > > Sorry, I should really read the entire thread. cdrecord requires a CDDL > > licensed build system, which is incompatible with the GPL licensed code. > > With the license incompati

Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread John Moser
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jason Crain wrote: > On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:21 am, Jason Crain wrote: >> On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:08 am, Odysseus Flappington wrote: The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that distributing it is currently believed to be a

Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:08:30PM +, Odysseus Flappington wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that > > distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the > > copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed

Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Jason Crain
On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:21 am, Jason Crain wrote: > On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:08 am, Odysseus Flappington wrote: >>> The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that >>> distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the >>> copyright interests of the owners

Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Jason Crain
On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:08 am, Odysseus Flappington wrote: >> The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that >> distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the >> copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the >> GPL. When we believ

Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Odysseus Flappington
> The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that > distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the > copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the > GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to I'm not really ta

Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:17:16PM +0200, Davyd McColl wrote: > My initial investigations (prior to most of my issues with wodim) into the > cdrkit vs cdrtools debacle left me feeling that Mr Schilling was just being > plain rude, and that the Debian guys had done a reasonable thing with the > cdrk

cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Davyd McColl
Good day I am quite new to the devel mailing list, so please bear with me. Recently, I've had a lot of trouble with wodim -- failed burns, refuses to blank a CD-RW until I have already done so with cdrecord from cdrtools. It seems that I'm far from being alone. My initial investigations (prior t