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Should freedb's Data Be Public Domain?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cd-information-wants-to-be-free dept.

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'?"

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  1. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sorry, what was FreeDB again?

  2. WTF is freedb? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Would it kill you to provide at least a short description in the summary?

  3. Why don't you just let FreeDB die? by A+Dafa+Disciple · · Score: -1, Troll
    Why don't you just let FreeDB die?

    Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
    George Santayana

    If I were to just leave thas quote as it were this post would likely be negatively moderated as being "Flamebait" or "Offtopic" and those moderations would probably be well justified. However, those are not my intentions.

    I'm not saying this as a proliferation of my opinion; I just wanted to pose a different perspective on the issue.

    --

    Falun Dafa is good!
    1. Re:Why don't you just let FreeDB die? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Whoever mod'd the parent post a troll, doesn't even know WTF a troll is.

      Some of you moderators need to pass some sort of exam before you're allowed to reveal your retardedness.

  4. Re:Submitter let freedb die! by sponge_absorbent · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please note that Horar (the submitter) is the one who effectivly let freedb.org die.
    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.

    ..promising to release the source but it is still not available.
    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/beccasfotos /robotics/

    yes, i like bold :)