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Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Feb 10 23:52:39 UTC 2010


Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 10-02-08 10:20:42, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> Well, the reason appears to be that cdrecord is not available in
>>>> Fedora unless you install it yourself, Fedora has chosen to take 
>>>> he respected cdrecord name and put wodim in its place. This seems 
>>>> to me as ethical as selling replica Rolex watches, the user get 
>>>> something other than what they expect.
>>>>     
>>> In which case please remmeber to do the following
>>>
>>> mv ssh openssh
>>> mv sshd opensshd
>>> mv cp gnucp
>>> mv ls gnuls 
>>>
>>> etc..
>>>   
>> Do you feel that any of these accept the commands of the original and 
>> are incapable of correctly producing the desired result?
>>
>> Neither do I.
>>
>> But wodim can not claim that behavior, and so should be called by its 
>> own name (and only that name, although I've used a few other names,
>> too, after wasting media).
> 
> Cdrecord cannot legally be distributed by anyone, due to license 
> problems.  Contact the author and complain.  Be aware that he is
> a difficult person who thinks he is as good a lawyer as he is a 
> sysadmin.
> 
I seem to have failed to make the point, I'm not asking anyone to distribute 
cdrecord, just to stop distributing a partially broken program of the same name. 
Or linking that program to cdrecord, or in any way providing a non-functional 
program which fails on Blu-ray, and is unreliable at best on SVCD and DVD-DL.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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