Jörg Schilling
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Jörg Schilling is a computer programmer who has worked extensively on compact disc burning software, the Solaris Operating System and the OpenSolaris project. He studied originally as an electrical engineer at the Technical University of Berlin. He is currently employed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Fraunhofer Institute Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin, where his main project was the BerliOS open source web site[1], announced to shut down at end of 2011.[2]
Schilling has supported open source for a long time. In 1982, he started the first free tar implementation.[3][dubious ] He currently maintains a feature-rich POSIX-compliant tar program called star.[4] His work over many years on CD burning software culminated in the cdrtools package, which includes cdrecord and the ancillary programs mkisofs and cdda2wav. This package supports most CD/DVD/Blu-ray recorders and runs on most operating systems.
His point of view and interpretation of legal and licensing issues including copyright law, as posted on many mailing lists, are controversial, as are the decisions made by some software distributors in response to changes in the licensing of his software.[5][6][7] One of the most prominent of these controversies was the decision by Debian (and subsequently several other major Linux distributions) to remove cdrecord and replace it with a GPL fork called Cdrkit due to alleged licensing issues[8]
He was elected to the OpenSolaris Governing Board for the 2010-2011 term,[9] however during this term the new owner of Solaris (Oracle Corporation) discontinued the community support and the OGB with Jörg Schilling collectively resigned.
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- ^ Daniel P. Dern. Profile: Jörg Schilling at OpenSolaris.org, 2005-05-01
- ^ Fraunhofer FOKUS (September 30, 2011). "BerliOS will be closed on 31.12.2011". BerliOS Neuigkeiten. BerliOS. http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37450. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
- ^ Re: Wikipedia kann man nicht ernst nehmen | Kritik und Unterstützung für Wikipedia | News-Foren, 2007-04-17
- ^ star information page
- ^ xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?
- ^ heise open: Debian Entwickler schmeißen cdrtools raus
- ^ Golem.de: Lizenzstreit um Cdrtools
- ^ cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian
- ^ Poll 5: Board Election 2010 results
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