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

Johann Peter Dirichlet peterdirichlet.freesoftware at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 04:44:02 EST 2010


Just burning the question:
what about other operating systems (yes, FreeBSD and family) about it?
It appears to be the cdrtools VS cdrkit issue doesn't affect them, and
in fact FreeBSD guys keep cdrtools as precompiled package but hold
cdrkit as a source-only port.

2010/1/27 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
> Joerg,
>
> The only thing that will definitely change our minds with regards to this is
> actually seeing a copy of the report saying the linking performed with
> cdrtools is not an issue due to license restrictions. Until that time, this
> discussion is going nowhere and makes you appear trollish with your replies.
>
> Maybe we will move to GNU mkisofs/isofsmk as development appears to have
> started there  (I can troll too...).
>
> Allan
>


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