Re: cdrecord floating point exception

[Rob Bogus <rob23@tmr.com>]

Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
> > There always was only one cdrecord source code since it's 
> > creation in late 1995. The first DVD support code was added in
> > February 1998 but could not be made OpenSource due to an NDA.
> > Anyway, the DVD support in cdrecord code became OpenSource long 
> > before the fork "wodim" was created. 
> >     
>
> Indeed the sequence was 
> 1) End of ProDVD (May 2006)
> 2) Fork of cdrkit (Oct 2006)
>
> But the release of ProDVD functionality in cdrtools
> source tarballs marks exactly the point where the
> fork took off:
>   http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2006/05/msg00021.html
> Here you announce cdrtools-2.01.01a09 and mention CDDL.
> The fork of cdrkit is based on cdrtools-2.01.01a08.
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkit
>
> So they probably did not take your DVD code because they
> assumed that it is not under GPL.
>   

But there were other programs capable of burning DVDs before that, based 
on hacked cdrecord code. They may not have been wodim, or were not 
called wodim, but they certainly existed. They even worked, if you found 
the right media for your burner. I don't miss SCSI burners a bit!

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E. Robert Bogusta
 It seemed like a good idea at the time