Temporary usage of libburn readme

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-                              libburnia.pykix.org
+                              libburnia-project.org
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 This all is under GPL.
 (See GPL reference, our clarification and commitment at the end of this text)
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-libburnia.pykix.org
+libburnia-project.org
 By Mario Danic <mario.danic@gmail.com> and Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
-Copyright (C) 2006 Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt
+Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt

 Still containing parts of
 Libburn. By Derek Foreman <derek@signalmarketing.com> and
            Ben Jansens <xor@orodu.net>
 Copyright (C) 2002-2006  Derek Foreman and Ben Jansens
-These parts are to be replaced by own code of above libburnia.pykix.org
-copyright holders and then libburnia.pykix.org is to be their sole copyright.
+These parts are to be replaced by own code of above libburnia-project.org
+copyright holders and then libburnia-project.org is to be their sole copyright.
 This is done to achieve the right to issue the clarification and the
 commitment as written at the end of this text.
 The rights and merits of the Libburn-copyright holders Derek Foreman and
 Ben Jansens will be duely respected. 

-This libburnia.pykix.org toplevel README (C) 2006 Thomas Schmitt 
+This libburnia-project.org toplevel README (C) 2006-2007 Thomas Schmitt 
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                           Build and Installation
@ -27,16 +27,16 @@ This libburnia.pykix.org toplevel README (C) 2006 Thomas Schmitt
 Our build system is based on autotools. For preparing the build of a SVN 
 snapshot you will need autotools of at least version 1.7. 
 Check out from SVN by
-   svn co http://libburnia-svn.pykix.org/libburn/trunk libburn_pykix
-go into directory libburn_pykix and apply autotools by
+   svn co http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libburn/trunk libburn
+go into directory libburn and apply autotools by
   ./bootstrap

 Alternatively you may unpack a release tarball for which you do not need
 autotools installed.

-To build a libburnia.pykix.org subproject it should be sufficient to go
-into its toplevel directory (here: "libburn_pykix") and execute
-   ./configure
+To build a libburnia-project.org subproject it should be sufficient to go
+into its toplevel directory (here: "libburn") and execute
+   ./configure --prefix=/usr
   make

 To make the libraries accessible for running resp. developing applications 
@ -44,17 +44,18 @@ To make the libraries accessible for running resp. developing applications


 The other half of the project, libisofs, is hosted in the libburnia SVN, too:
-   svn co http://libburnia-svn.pykix.org/libisofs/trunk libisofs_pykix
+   svn co http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libisofs/trunk libisofs
 See README file there.


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-                        Overview of libburnia.pykix.org 
+                        Overview of libburnia-project.org

-libburnia.pykix.org is an open-source software project for reading, mastering
-and writing optical discs. For now this means only CD-R and CD-RW.
+libburnia-project.org is an open-source software project for reading, mastering
+and writing optical discs.
+For now this means only CD media and all single layer DVD media except DVD+R.

 The project comprises of several more or less interdependent parts which
 together strive to be a usable foundation for application development.
@ -66,10 +67,10 @@ we would need : login on a development machine resp. a live OS on CD or DVD,
 advise from a system person about the equivalent of Linux sg or FreeBSD CAM,
 volunteers for testing of realistic use cases.

-We do have a workable code base for burning data CDs, though. The burn API is
-quite comprehensively documented and can be used to build a presentable
-application.
-We do have a functional binary which emulates parts of cdrecord in order to
+We have a workable code base for burning CD and most single layer DVD.
+The burn API is quite comprehensively documented and can be used to build a
+presentable application.
+We have a functional binary which emulates parts of cdrecord in order to
 prove that usability, and in order to allow you to explore libburnia's scope
 by help of existing cdrecord frontends.

@ -78,20 +79,25 @@ The project components (list subject to growth, hopefully):
 - libburn  is the library by which preformatted data get onto optical media.
           It uses either /dev/sgN (e.g. on kernel 2.4 with ide-scsi) or
           /dev/hdX (e.g. on kernel 2.6).
-           libburn is the foundation of our cdrecord emulation.
+           libburn is the foundation of our cdrecord emulation. Its code is
+           independent of cdrecord. Its DVD capabilities are learned from
+           studying the code of dvd+rw-tools and MMC-5 specs. No code but only
+           the pure SCSI knowledge has been taken from dvd+rw-tools, though.

 - libisofs is the library to pack up hard disk files and directories into a
-           ISO 9660 disk image. This may then be brought to CD via libburn.
+           ISO 9660 disk image. This may then be brought to media via libburn.
           libisofs is to be the foundation of our upcoming mkisofs emulation.

 - cdrskin  is a limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn.
           Cdrecord is a powerful GPL'ed burn program included in Joerg
           Schilling's cdrtools. cdrskin strives to be a second source for
-           the services traditionally provided by cdrecord.
+           the services traditionally provided by cdrecord. Additionally it
+           provides libburn's DVD capabilities, where only -sao is compatible
+           with cdrecord.
           cdrskin does not contain any bytes copied from cdrecord's sources.
           Many bytes have been copied from the message output of cdrecord
           runs, though.
-           See cdrskin/README for more.
+           See cdrskin/README and man cdrskin/cdrskin.1 for more.

 - test     is a collection of application gestures and examples given by the
           authors of the library features. The main API example for libburn
@ -121,7 +127,7 @@ Project history as far as known to me:
  It has meanwhile moved to use vanilla libburn.pykix.org , though.
  Version 0.1.4 constitutes the first release of this kind.

- In Juli 2006 our team mate Mario Danic announced a revival of libburn
+- In July 2006 our team mate Mario Danic announced a revival of libburn
  which by about nearly everybody else was perceived as unfriendly fork.
  Derek Foreman four days later posted a message which expressed his
  discontent.
@ -178,13 +184,32 @@ Project history as far as known to me:
  libburn, is now called libburnia. For the origin of this name, see 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liburnians .

+- 16th January 2007 release of libburn-0.3.0 and cdrskin-0.3.0 . Now the scope
+  is widened to a first class of DVD media: overwriteable single layer types
+  DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW. This is not a cdrecord emulation but rather inspired
+  by dvd+rw-tools' "poor man" writing facility for this class of media.
+  Taking a bow towards Andy Polyakov.
+
+- 11th February 2007 version 0.3.2 covers sequential DVD-RW and DVD-R with
+  multi-session and with DAO.
+
+- 12th March 2007 version 0.3.4 supports DVD+R and thus covers all single layer
+  DVD media. Code for double layer DVD+/-R is implemented but awaits a tester
+  yet.
+
+- 23th April 2007 version 0.3.6 follows the unanimous opinion of Linux kernel
+  people that one should not use /dev/sg on kernel 2.6.
+
+- 31st July 2007 version 0.3.8 marks the first anniversary of libburn revival.
+  We look back on improved stability, a substantially extended list of media
+  and write modes, and better protection against typical user mishaps.
+

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    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-    (at your option) any later version.
+    the Free Software Foundation. To be exact: version 2 of that License.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of