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Re: Burning ISO's to CD with Cygwin


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


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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.

Do have that right?

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