Lars Weiler

First, I have to correct one sentence in my previous entry about this topic. It read “non-free version of cdrtools”, which is not true. The current cdrtools are licensed under the CDDL, which is of course an Open Source license. But it is not compatible with the GNU GPL according to the list of GPL-Compatible Free Software Licenses.

But what changed within those more than eight months between the previous and this post? It seems that cdrkit died in May. There are still some random posts on the mailing-list, there was a minor bugfix-release with corrections in the man-page, but no real code-change.

On the other hand cdrtools made a big step forward and now supports unicode out of the box, ISO-files > 4GB (up to 8TB, think about DVD-9) and even Blu Ray!

I will try to keep current versions of both apps in portage, so that the user can decide which one to use. The only thing I'm not sure about is if I should change back the default virtual for cdrtools? Currently it's pointing to cdrkit, so that any dependency will use that application. But as soon as a GUI supports Blu Ray I should change it back to cdrtools. Probably that will be around Christmas when the average Nerd finds such a Blu Ray burner under the Christmas tree