cdrtools
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| cdrtools | |
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| Developed by | Jörg Schilling |
| Latest release | 2.01.01a37 / January 2, 2008 |
| OS | Unix-like |
| Genre | CD/DVD-writing |
| License | CDDL, GPL |
| Website | cdrtools at berlios.de |
cdrtools (formerly known as cdrecord) is a collection of independent projects of free software/open source computer programs. It is the standard set of CD and DVD authoring tools for most free Unix operating systems. The collection includes many features, such as:
- support for creation of audio, data, and mixed (audio and data) CDs.
- support for burning CD-R, CD-RW and DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD+RW, both single and dual layer DVDs.
- support for several different burning modes, such as Track-At-Once and Disc-At-Once
- support for cue sheet based writing using the control file format from cdrwin
- nearly complete support for Blu-ray media
- support for many vendor specific drive features is implemented.
The project collection called cdrtools was created by Jörg Schilling and others under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The sub-project mkisofs completely remains under GPL. The most important parts of the package are cdrecord, a console-based burning program; cdda2wav, a CD audio ripper that includes libparanoia support; and mkisofs, a CD filesystem image creator. Because these tools don't include any GUI, many graphical front-ends have been created (see below).
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[edit] Licensing controversy
In recent versions, starting with 2.01.01a09, most code from cdrtools has been relicensed under the CDDL,[1] while other parts are still licensed under the GPL. In the opinion of most observers, this change makes it impossible to legally distribute cdrtools binaries since the requirements of the GPL and CDDL conflict.[2] No non-GPL code in cdrtools is based on GPL code or a "derived work" from a work under GPL.
[edit] The future of cdrtools
Debian,[3] Red Hat,[4] SUSE, and Mandriva[5] dropped the versions of cdrtools with CDDL code from their distributions. The Debian project created cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools.[6]
cdrtools added some bug fixes and new features, such as UTF-8 support for mkisofs, support for multi extent files (> 4 GB) in mkisofs, support for correct hard links in mkisofs and Blu-ray support in cdrecord.
[edit] Forks
- cdrkit
- DVD-R Tools
[edit] Software that can use cdrtools
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Jörg Schilling. Cdrtools (Cdrecord) release information. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.
- ^ Jonathan Corbet. cdrtools - a tale of two licenses. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.
- ^ #377109 - RM: cdrtools -- RoM: non-free, license problems - Debian Bug report logs. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.
- ^ Information for build cdrtools-2.01-11.fc7. Retrieved on 2007-08-04. “moved back to version 2.01 (last GPL version), due to incompatible license issues”
- ^ Mandriva Cooker : The Inside Man V. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.
- ^ cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.
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