[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

[Ray Kohler]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Kitty <secacat at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I'm in favor of #3, and practically, the other bigger distros
> that have switched back to cdrtools are fatter targets for any legal
> action. Furthermore, who exactly would be doing the suing? If it's the
> GNU, then their goal would be to fix the licence problems, not collect
> money. If that happened, put it all in AUR and wash our hands.

I'm quite convinced by this argument myself. Who would be suing us?
FSF wouldn't give us a hard time, and Herr Schilling certainly doesn't
intend to do so.

I think there's also no question that cdrtools is technically superior
to cdrkit. There's practically no reason for even debating this.