| Developer(s) | Jörg Schilling |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.01.01 |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | CD/DVD/BluRay-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 has been adapted to use on Windows. 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 Discs
- 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 Software that can use cdrtools section).
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Licensing change
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. Jonathan Corbet, founder of the LWN.net news source argued this change makes it impossible to legally distribute cdrtools binaries.[2] Most BSD-Distributions and SUN with their OS Solaris do not share this opinion and still ship recent binaries.[citation needed]
Debian,[3] Red Hat,[4][5] and Mandriva[6] dropped the versions of cdrtools with CDDL code from their distributions. The Debian project created cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools.[7] In August 2008, Mark Shuttleworth offered to ask the Software Freedom Law Center for a legal opinion on whether cdrtools could be included in Ubuntu, provided Schilling agreed to accept the opinion.[8]
Since the licensing change, 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.
Forks
- cdrkit
- DVD-R Tools
Software that can use cdrtools
See also
References
- ^ Jörg Schilling. "Cdrtools (Cdrecord) release information". http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ Jonathan Corbet. "cdrtools - a tale of two licenses". http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ "#377109 - RM: cdrtools -- RoM: non-free, license problems - Debian Bug report logs". http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377109. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ "Information for build cdrtools-2.01-11.fc7". http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2185. Retrieved 2007-08-04. "moved back to version 2.01 (last GPL version), due to incompatible license issues"
- ^ "[Fedora-legal-list Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora]". https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-July/msg00000.html.
- ^ "Mandriva Cooker : The Inside Man V". http://lwn.net/Articles/223179/. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ "cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test". http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00002.html. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ "Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2008-08-26". https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-August/000472.html. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
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