On 04/03/2011 10:34 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 19:17:55 +0200, > Zoltan Hoppar<hopparz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> HI Bruno, >> >> Sure, but I think if I loose less hair and I could forget broken >> unfinished writes... I don't care of this fighting theatre. However I >> really would like to know the truth, and we have also libburnia >> project. Still more users experimenting strange errors... then can be >> true either. > There are several issues. There is the licensing, which could probably be > resolved. There is the security issue of not filtering scsi commands. > (I think I got burned by this, as I have an old DVD burner, that stopped > being able to burn CDs, but can still burn DVDs that changed around the time > that switch was made.) And there was (maybe still is, but I am not sure) > cdrtools obscure way of referring to devices by scsi ids instead of file > system paths. Plus, I get the impression that cdrtools is mostly a one man > show, and that isn't good for future proofing. Were any of the software byJoerg Schilling released with the GPL license? If not, then he has sole claim, no? Also, many corporations reserve the right to withdraw their product from the GPL license and make it proprietary again. As much as we opensource fans would like it to be otherwise, I think the owner of the source still at least retains intellectual property rights, if not also distribution rights (if NOT released under GPL). Also, I was not pleased when Joerg required one to get a special license token to burn a full DVD iso. But then, he produced it and had the right to do with it as he pleased. As far as using the "obscure way of referring to devices by scsi ids", Did he not borrow that from Solaris? I thought his first release was for Solaris. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
