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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by e7620 on Thursday November 20, 2014 @12:56PM (#8637051)
What he says is that they used the literal name in symlinks, not a derivative term.
Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by makomk on Saturday November 22, 2014 @11:13AM (#8645838)
They did that so that scripts which run "cdrecord" or "mkisofs" continued to work, which I'm pretty sure is allowed under trademark law (trademarks don't apply to functional elements - if it wasn't for this, Oracle and Microsoft could kill off any third-party reimplementation of Java or many Windows APIs quite easily). If you run "cdrecord --version" it tells you that it's actually Wodim.