Cdrkit

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cdrkit is a collection of computer programs for CD and DVD authoring that work on Unix-like systems. cdrkit is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, and Ubuntu all include cdrkit. Joerg Jaspert is cdrkit's leader and release manager.

It was created in 2006 by Debian developers as a fork of cdrtools based on the last GPL-licensed version when cdrtools licensing changed.^[1]

Major components of cdrkit include:

• wodim (an acronym for write optical disk media), which was forked from the cdrecord program in cdrtools.
• icedax (an acronym for incredible digital audio extractor), which was forked from the cdda2wav program in cdrtools.
• genisoimage (short for "generate ISO image"), which was forked from the mkisofs program in cdrtools.^{[citation needed]}