sun with solaris always distributed the original software the same applies to slackware recently most linux distributions started to distribute the original cdrtools again debian did agree on marh th at cebit to distribute the original cdrtools again although debian is soooooo slooooow with doing the right things and we are still waiting for the contract to be implemented by debian the binary packages are waiting for integration since months and suse distributes cdrtools again since two months it seems that only redhat defies to do things to the benefit of the users the attack against the cdrtools project that created the fork seems to have been revealed as an attack against the linux users as it is obvious that linux users do not like to be forced to use a buggy fork while the maintained original software is legally available