Cdrtools

Infobox_Software
name = cdrtools

developer = Jörg Schilling
latest_release_version = 2.01.01
operating_system = Unix-like
genre = CD/DVD-writing
license = CDDL, GPL
website = [http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html 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 below).

Licensing change

In recent versions, starting with 2.01.01a09, most code from cdrtools has been relicensed under the CDDL, [cite web
url=http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html
author=Jörg Schilling
title=Cdrtools (Cdrecord) release information
accessdate=2007-08-04|] while other parts are still licensed under the GPL. In the opinion of most observers, this change makes it impossible to legally distribute cdrtools binaries. [cite web
url=http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/
author=Jonathan Corbet
title=cdrtools - a tale of two licenses
accessdate=2007-08-04|]

Debian, [cite web
url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377109
title=#377109 - RM: cdrtools -- RoM: non-free, license problems - Debian Bug report logs
accessdate=2007-08-04|] Red Hat, [cite web
url=http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2185
title=Information for build cdrtools-2.01-11.fc7
quote=moved back to version 2.01 (last GPL version), due to incompatible license issues
accessdate=2007-08-04|] SUSE and Mandriva [cite web
url=http://lwn.net/Articles/223179/
title=Mandriva Cooker : The Inside Man V
accessdate=2007-08-04|] dropped the versions of cdrtools with CDDL code from their distributions. The Debian project created cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools. [cite web
url=http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00002.html
title=cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test
accessdate=2007-08-04|] 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. [cite web
url=https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-August/000472.html
title=Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2008-08-26
accessdate=2008-09-15]

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

* K3b
* X-CD-Roast
* InfraRecorder
* Graveman
* GnomeBaker
* cdrtfe ( [http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/ "cdrtfe - Homepage at sourceforge"] )

See also

* cdrskin

References

External links

* [http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html Official website]
* [http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/ "cdrtools - a tale of two licenses"]