Welcome to libburnia project

News

* Tue Feb 23 2010 By release 0.5.0.pl00 of libisoburn the standalone version of xorriso becomes an official GNU project. The name changed to "GNU xorriso" and its license is now GPLv3+. There are also some bug fixes.

The licenses of libburnia libraries and applications are not affected by this change.

* Wed Feb 10 2010 Version 0.6.28 of libisofs fixes a regression about bootable images which was introduced by version 0.6.22 in August 2009.

* Wed Jan 26 2010 libisoburn/xorriso is released as version 0.4.8.pl00. A rare bug about CD-RW blanking was fixed in xorriso.

* Sat Jan 23 2010 A new version 0.7.6.pl00 of libburn /cdrskin is ready on releases page. It has an improved system adapter for FreeBSD, fixes bugs about the generic X/Open system adapter, and allows to use libcdio-0.83git as SCSI transport facility.

* Tue Dec 29 2009 Our project received a donation for purchasing a fine small computer which shall serve as OS farm for development and support.

* Wed Aug 12 2009 The ticket system has been closed due to our inability to curb spam submissions. Please send mails to the general mailing list instead of posting tickets.

ABOUT

libburnia is a project for reading, mastering and writing optical discs. Currently it is comprised of libraries named libisofs, libburn, libisoburn, a cdrecord emulator named cdrskin, and an integrated multi-session tool named xorriso. The software runs on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.

LICENCE

The source code for the libburnia project is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

SOURCE CODE

The current release tarballs are available at Releases Page.

The project lives in part in a subversion repository hosted on http://svn.libburnia-project.org and in part in a bzr repository hosted at launchpad. You can check-out the latest versions using:

svn co http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libburn/trunk libburn
bzr branch lp:~libburnia-team/libisofs/scdbackup libisofs
svn co http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libisoburn/trunk libisoburn

For building the libraries and binaries you will need autotools of at least version 1.7.

CONTRIBUTION

We welcome and consider any sorts of contribution although not all can be accepted, of course. If you would like to contribute to libburnia project development, report experiences, propose new features, or post patches for discussion on our general mailing list.

MAILING LISTS

We run mailing lists for various purposes.

libburn-hackers - Our primary list for general development discussion. Feel free to ask for support here.

libburn-cutters - A list for people who use cd burning/mastering software which use libburn. For general cd burning discussion go here. Feel free to post ideas for discussion here too.

libburn-announcements - Low-traffic announcement list. Read-only list. Subscribe if you're a packager/maintainer.

IRC

Libburnia developers can be reached on #libburn channel on Freenode.

DOCUMENTATION

API Documentation - Libburn - C API - introduction

API Documentation - Libisofs - C API - introduction

API Documentation - Libisoburn - C API - introduction

README (from SVN) - toplevel README

DONATIONS

Any donations made to the libburnia project would greatly assist its progress by helping us to acquire drives and media. If you would like to donate, please mail us: mario [at] libburnia-project [dot] org, Cc: scdbackup [at] gmx [dot] net.

DEVELOPERS

Mario Đanić - mario [at] libburnia-project [dot] org - Founder & developer

Vreixo Formoso Lopes - metalpain2002 [at] yahoo [dot] - developer

Thomas Schmitt - scdbackup [at] gmx [dot] net - developer