cdrtools

Developer(s)	Jörg Schilling
Stable release	2.01.01
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	CD/DVD/BluRay-writing
License	CDDL, GPL
Website	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 Software that can use cdrtools section).

Contents 1 Licensing change 2 Forks 3 Software that can use cdrtools 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Licensing change

In recent versions, starting with 2.01.01a09, most code from cdrtools has been relicensed under the CDDL,^[1] while other parts are still licensed under the GPL. Jonathan Corbet, founder of the LWN.net news source argued this change makes it impossible to legally distribute cdrtools binaries.^[2] Most BSD-Distributions and SUN with their OS Solaris do not share this opinion and still ship recent binaries.^{[citation needed]}

Debian,^[3] Red Hat,^[4][5] and Mandriva^[6] dropped the versions of cdrtools with CDDL code from their distributions. The Debian project created cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools.^[7] 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.^[8]

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.

[edit] Forks

• cdrkit
• DVD-R Tools

[edit] Software that can use cdrtools

• K3b
• X-CD-Roast
• InfraRecorder
• Graveman
• GnomeBaker
• cdrtfe
• cdw

[edit] See also

• cdrskin

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

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