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In response to: Gentoo is with cdrkit

Luis Medinas [Member] — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:16:22 +0000

No cdrtools won't be removed from Gentoo period. Our users will choose whatever they want.

In response to: Gentoo is with cdrkit

Chi-Thanh Nguyen [Visitor] — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:37:52 +0000

I thought the license problems are only Debian's concern because it is a binary distribution. Gentoo however is source-based.

What is not clear from your announcement: Will cdrtools be removed or will users have the choice between cdrkit and cdrtools?

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Risotto [Visitor] — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:13:31 +0000

I think it's really silly to change something crucial as cdrtools which is making such a good job at burning cds under linux. It will be really hard to replace this excellent tool, because even though Schilling may be a difficult person he really has some expertise in a field that is difficult to replace. Have you already forgotten, that linux was years behind in cd burning? Now that there was cdrtools things got better, but no, some dispute over licenses (I think Schilly doesn't realy care about the license but about more fundamental things with the debian community) sets us years back...

All because a stupid license dispute.... is that the opensource spirit? I don't think so! I really don't understand why other distros are so eager to follow debian. They should have waited first to see how things develop!

In response to: Gentoo is with cdrkit

Francesco Pedrini [Visitor] — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:22:00 +0000

Florian the other side (the JS ones) is the following:

In response to: Gentoo is with cdrkit

Florian Mickler [Visitor] — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:16:09 +0000

"Now i know the real story since i've been talking with Debian
Maintainers"..

-ironic-
well... good to see that you made yourself a clean picture of both sides of this argument...
-/ironic-
i hope loosing the work from joerg schilling will not be too hard a blow though...