Re: CDRtools in RPMFusion
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:39:57 -0500
Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Simone Caronni
<negativo17(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to merge my current CDRtools package [1] in RPMFusion. It
> currently has quite a large user base. It is used by people who needs to
> burn Dual Layer DVDs or Blue Ray discs. Currently cdrkit (wodim) is not
> able to burn them; actually it never had since its first exception.
>
Sounds good. I looked at it earlier but eventually gave up not only because
of the license issue (I was taking another shot at getting it in Fedora)
but because it doesn't replace the existing tools 1:1 so packaging just got
too complicated for my level of interest. Additionally I got my BD-R discs
burning quite well using cdrskin via libburn.
IANAL, but I believe the same reasons that prevent inclusion of
CDRtools into Fedora prevent it from inclusion into RPMFusion. The
program is breaking free software licenses (CDDL linking GPL and the
two are incompatible by design of CDDL), which makes redistribution (in
binary form) impossible.
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Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org