Wodim trouble

[Conrad Meyer]

On Monday 02 November 2009 05:55:49 pm King InuYasha wrote:
> What is going on here? I thought Fedora only shipped upstream code? What's
> all this business about having broken forks and licensing issues?
> 
> The only thing I can figure out from this conversation is that the CDDL is
> supposed to be incompatible with the GPL. If that's the case, why not
>  simply ask the original creator to kindly dual license it?

In this case, upstream (wodim) is a fork of Joerg Schilling's project. Wodim 
was forked from cdrecord because Joerg is crazy. Joerg likes to call wodim 
"the broken fork" and cdrecord "the original software".

Hope that helps,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <cemeyer at u.washington.edu>