Re: [gNewSense-users] CD writing support

[Karl Goetz]

Markus Laire wrote:
> Hello,
> After learning about gNewSense I was pleased to learn that you have
> removed all the problematic firmware from the Linux Kernel.
cool eh? :)
> Still, there is another serious problem - CD writing - which I'd like
> to discuss.
>
> CD writing in gNewSense seems to be handled by cdrecord, but IMHO it
> should be removed from the project ASAP because you don't have a valid
> license to distribute it. (In fact, most likely nobody has.)
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The gns 1.0 code base is ubuntu dapper, so there are several things that 
are 'imperfect'[1].
i believe that gns will follow distros like Fedora (its released, but 
there will be updates to software, in this case increases in freedom). I 
suppose this means that these things will be fixed, as soon as brian/the 
devs are happy the changes are sustainable.

[1] mplayer is now in debian, but not gns, cdrecord and firefox are in 
gns, but are questionable.
kk

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