> Branden Robinson: > > It's time to fork. Let us work with the rest of the community to > standardize on a new set of tools based on the last free version of > cdrtools, thank Mr. Schilling for his valuable contributions, and leave him > be to pursue his interests in proprietary software without interference > or argument from us. He appears to regard placing his work under the plain > vanilla GNU GPL that works for so many projects as an act that he cannot > perform in good conscience. Let us stop placing him in that uncomfortable > position.
> Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo: > > I agree with you. And I guess that the "good" direction would be > pushing libburn, which seems a bit stalled right now. Also, DVD[-R[W], > +R[W]] support should be added to it. On top of that library, it would > be easier to build command line and GUI oriented programs, which could > drop at that moment cdrecord. > > But what is needed there is people with time and access to different > drives. Perhaps people behind dvd+rw-tools could be interested, and some > company out there could sponsor this piece of software. In support of this statement, I'd like to add that my limited interactions with Andy Polyakov, the author of dvd+rw-tools, have been overwhelmingly positive. I'd also remind people that dvd+rw-tools is already able to write dvd-r and dvd-rw (even though its name implies dvd+r and dvd+rw) in some modes. I have used dvd+rw-tools for some time as my exclusive software for DVD authoring, even on dvd-r and dvd-rw. Also, cdrdao has some CD writing capability (not withstanding caveats and warnings in README.Debian) and is not, to my knowledge, related to cdrtools. -- Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ql.org/q/
