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(In reply to comment #5)
> The cdrkit "fork" is in conflict with the copyright law
> and cannot be distributed legally. The initiators
> of the fork have been informed in detail about the copyright
> problems but they are not interested in making the fork legal.
You don't seem to get the concept of free software. When you released cdrtools under the GPL, at that moment you gave permission to take the code and fork it as according to the license. Those versions are still under the GPL. You just not might not be able to call the fork "cdrecord"; that's why it's called cdrkit.
(In reply to comment #9)
> As you are not alone and as there are people on other platforms
> that created own binary packets, it would be a nice idea to also
> create redhat packages for cdrtools.
So do so.
> SuSE includes packages for the original software since
> September 2009 after a private person created these packages
> for a longer time.
A *private* person. It's not a part of SuSe.
> Since a while there are binary packages for Ubuntu created by
> private people.
Again, *private* people, not Ubuntu.
> RedHat seems to be the only remaining white spot that misses
> recent software.
No, you've just shown yourself that other distributions such as SuSE and Ubuntu do not include the CDDA-licensed cdrtools, either.