[Libburn] Announcing cdrskin 0.1.0, a limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn

[Tiago Cogumbreiro]

Excelent, that would be great!

Thanks alot Derek.

On 1/16/06, Derek Foreman <manmower at signalmarketing.com> wrote:
>
> I'd have to re-write a couple of functions to make the library LGPL
> compatible, and til now I'd not seen a compelling reason to do so.
>
> Otherwise, I don't have any objections against LGPL.
> (anyone that does, please speak up...)
>
> I'll look in to re-writing those functions.
>
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Tiago Cogumbreiro wrote:
>
> > On 1/12/06, scdbackup at gmx.net <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> I need a tutor and tester for cdrecord audio features. My computer can say
> >> "beep" and "boap" but nothing else. No speaker boxes, no music collection,
> >> no livingroom CD player, ... looks like i am not at all musical.
> >> I am willing to adapt cdrskin to this tutor's favorite cdrecord frontend and
> >> to change cdrskin's code so it makes appropriate use of libburn features in
> >> order to emulate cdrecord's audio capabilities.
> >>
> >
> > It would be very interesting to test cdskin as a replacement of
> > cdrecord for nautilus-cd-burn. I am the developer of Serpentine[1], a
> > audio-cd writer software which uses nautilus-cd-burn. So if serpentine
> > works with cdrskin that means that:
> > 1- cdskin is compatible with nautilus-cd-burner (at least in the audio part)
> > -2 cdskin can burn audio cds
> >
> > As a side note, could libburn be released as LGPL?
> >
> > One problem I'm facing with serpentine is that nautilus-cd-burner is GPL.
> >
> > Since GPL is incompatible with patent libraries it's incompatible with
> > gstreamer's mp3 decoding plugin.
> >
> > If libburn was LGPL I could change serpentine's license to LGPL and
> > ship it with gstreamer+mp3 whithout licensing problems.
> >
> > [1] - http://s1x.homelinux.net/projects/serpentine/
> >
> > --
> > Tiago Cogumbreiro <cogumbreiro at users.sf.net>
> >
> > http://s1x.homelinux.net/
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