On 07/25/2009 04:13 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Fedora does this with cdrecord, putting some package called 'token' or > 'hokum' or some such in place of the real package by that name from the > author who wrote it and has maintained it for 15 years. Every time I > have to download and install the real version I question the ethics of > using a different program which is subtly different instead of just > leaving it out totally. I believe token is a hack of what cdrecord was > about seven years ago. Very inaccurate. Wodim is a fork of cdrecord in 2006 and the fork was a direct result of the cdrecord author changing some of the files into the CDDL license and thereby creating a license incompatibility that caused the source to be non redistributable (Except by the author). Since a number of programs have traditionally called the cdrecord binary directly, wodim installs a symlink for backward compatibility. More details at the following references. http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/ http://lwn.net/Articles/199061/ Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
