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Should freedb's Data Be Public Domain?
Horar asks: "There's been a lot of recent fuss over freedb. My position is that freedb was just not free enough, and I would like to find a way to bring all the data into the public domain, just as MusicBrainz has done with much of their data. I had not thought that this would be possible until I received advice from various parties suggesting that it was. So now I ask Slashdot if this is true? Can the freedb data legally be brought into the public domain at this time, and if so how? Most importantly, would it be 'The Right Thing To Do'?"
Please note that Horar (the submitter) is the one who effectivly let freedb.org die.
..promising to release the source but it is still not available.
s /robotics/
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By refusing to become involved in the infighting of others who caused it's demise.
He worked with them for two years but didn't release any useful code.
How dare he contribute years of unpaid work and not release code that you deem useful.
Now he is activly promoting his own project freedb2.org,..
He is promoting it because he believes it is better, there is nothing wrong with that.
Some of his code is already available and the rest he is working on. I personally know Horar to be a firm beliver in OSS but he needs some time to organise and document the code. Have a little patience.
I wonder why he should care about the data not being public domain, if his software is to be supposed GPL licensed? Unless well... think for your self.
I can't belive he just got more advertising on slashdot.
Horar is a nice guy. As well as running a small business and hosting freedb2 for your convenience he builds robots and helps out other robotics geeks like myself. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v414/beccasfoto
yes, i like bold