Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Diego Calleja
2004-08-19T15:36:37Z

El Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:32:40 -0400 Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> escribió:

> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 03:04, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> > If no one has noticed yet, thanks to the additional license
> > restrictions Joerg Schilling has added to cdrecord (due to this
> > thread), it may be now moved to non-free in Debian in the near future.
>
> What restrictions? Do you have a link?

See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/006193.html (which may not
be the best interpretation of the changes)

Basically it was added a "linuxcheck" function which you're not allowed to
modify or delete. The function has a "warning", which results in something
like:
cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.8
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.

(Dunno what it prints out when you're running suse but I don't think linux
vendors are going to distribute software which says that their own software
has issues.)