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Re: Burning ISO's to CD with Cygwin
Grok Mogger wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>> Grok Mogger wrote:
>>> I recently wanted to burn an ISO to a CD on my Windows machine.
>>> So where did I turn first? Cygwin! But much to my dismay, I
>>> don't seem to have cdrecord or wodim. I couldn't seem to find
>>> the packages anywhere using 'cygcheck -p $whatever', just
>>> looking through the GUI setup, or even with Google. What
>>> package do I need to install? Are these tools really not in the
>>> distribution? If so, why not?
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-09/msg00142.html
> Thanks for the link. I'm not completely sure I followed
> everything in that thread, so I'd just like to see if I have
> this straight.
> cdrecord is completely open source. But the author of cdrecord,
> "Joerg", took the cdrecord source, and added some code to it to
> make "ProDVD", a similar software package that will also burn
> DVD's. This package is completely free and even available as
> binaries for Cygwin, but the author won't release the additional
> source code that makes it work its DVD burning magic.
> So the Cygwin maintainers won't allow cdrecord or ProDVD into
> Cygwin. Even though cdrecord is still completely free and open
> source.
It was true 2004. In May 15th 2006 Joerg did move the DVD support code to
the OpenSource part.
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/AN-2.01.01a09
But there are some discussion about the License-change to the CDDL-License
(especially in the Debian-Community). Which is strange since they accepted
star from the same Author which is also under the CDDL.
You can either self-compile cdrtools or use the Binary from cygwin-ports.
Kai
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