to offer some command line compatibility with cdrecord and is available in many Linux distributions. Gentoo Linux is unaffected, as the potential licensing issue only affects the distribution of precompiled binaries and this distribution compile from source code. It initially offers both versions, as well as libburnia, dropping cdrkit in 2017. Slackware only provided cdrtools (build script for cdrkit is available from SlackBuild.org, but the two packages could not co-exists); libburnia was introduced in November 2020 as needed by KDE Plasma 5. Mandriva Linux, which had dropped its cdrtools package in 2007, was returned by Mandriva to the community and became OpenMandriva Lx, which ships the original cdrtools. openSUSE, which had dropped its customized cdrtools package in 2007, added back the original cdrtools in Fall 2013. Since building cdrtools from source is widely accepted as legal, there exist compile instructions for many Linux distributions. Inclusion into toolset Schily-Tools Cdrtools are part of Jörg Schilling's toolset Schily-Tools which was originally distributed on SourceForge. Schilling stopped updating the cdrtools-only alpha and stable branch in 2017 with version 3.02a9; version 3.02a10 and higher are only included in the source package schilytools. The "Schily" Tool Box is a set of tools written or managed by Jörg Schilling. It includes the programs: cdrecord, cdda2wav, readcd, mkisofs, smake, bsh, btcflash, calc, calltree, change, compare, count, devdump, dmake based on SunPro Make, hdump, isodebug, isodump, isoinfo, isovfy, label, mt, obosh, od, p, POSIX patch, pbosh, sccs, scgcheck, scpio, sdd, sfind, sformat, smake, sh/bosh (Bourne sh), star, star_sym, strar, suntar, gnutar, tartest, termcap, and ved. The final version of Schily-Tools published by Jörg Schilling himself is the 2021-09-18 release. After his death, development of Schily-Tools has been taken up by a group of volunteers. To mark his passing, his cdrtools final version, 3.02a10 (where the a indicates the software is semantically alpha) was declared to be the new stable version 3.02 with no substantial changes. Version history See also Forks cdrkit dvdrtools (not to confuse with dvd+rw-tools) Software that can use cdrtools Brasero (Unix-like) InfraRecorder (Windows) K3b (Unix-like) X-CD-Roast (Unix-like) cdrtfe(ru) (Windows) References External links Console CD ripping software Free DVD burning software Free optical disc authoring software Free software programmed in C Linux CD ripping software Linux CD/DVD writing software Optical disc authoring software MacOS CD ripping software Software using the CDDL license