Check out http://www.univention.de/ucs.html . It's a true AD replacement and if you are willing to compile there packages on your own, you won't have to pay fees. If you stick to prebuild binaries, you have to pay.
UCS is either a replacement or a teamplayer *with* AD.
Freedb and Gracenote had been in competition but they never sued freedb. Never. Although they tried some scare tactics on freedb once or twice with their patents, all of the time Gracenote played fair with freedb.
set up a _free_ service, operate it for 7 years, become successful with it and shut up until then. It takes more than you probably can handle on your own. Jörg and Ari left me after the *thought* you would play fair. To my knowledge, freedb2.org is still operated on YOUR own. Please explain, why Jörg and Ari refused to work with you.
You're completely wrong. Did you ever worked for a project that takes more that 15 hours a week of your spare time to set up and start working? Right now, it takes even more time to keep this service running. We spend/spent a lot of time an money getting where we are now, we are doing this for fun and to don't even think about commercial ads on our website or charing the user for the service or ANY other way to lower our personal financial expenses and we try to assure everyone that freedb will NEVER take the gracenote-way. That's why we put everything under an open licence.
His departure from SuSE comes at a time when SuSE gathers its forces and resources to strengthen SuSE as a business positioning itself to lead the world towards what is the most powerful and acknowledged alternative to the dominance of one proprietary operating system.
This sounds just like the PalmPilot Dilbert mission statement generator...
It appears that most of Gracenote's bitching is about the "unauthorized derivative" status of FreeDB. They're claiming that FreeDB is using data from their servers, and acting as though FreeDB were still somehow reliant on the CDDB system. Is this in any way true? I like FreeDB, but I can see Gracenote's point if there's actually a link between FreeDB and the CDDB database.
freedb.org started with the last archives of the former free cddb that've been floating aroung. As the archives have been distributed with a GPL'ed program (xmcd) chances are that those archives are under the GPL, too;-)
With this initial database, freedb.org did never rip (or even tries to) cddb's database, freedb.org got all their entries from usersubmissions.
It's already done. Try telnet freecddb.freecddb.org port 888 It's running version 1.3.1 of cddb and has about 120,000 CDs online but it lacks the web/cgi-interface.
I've set up a cddd-server (1.3.1) using the "well-known" cddb-archive-file (~30MB) containing aprx 120,000 titles.
You can telnet freecddb.freecddb.org port 888 (212.86.129.8) and check it out. Submissions will not be updated automatically by now.
No cgi availible yet, so if anyone has a pointer to where I can find "the" cgi-script, please let me know. If there are any efforts to create a free database, please contact me.
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Check out http://www.univention.de/ucs.html . It's a true AD replacement and if you are willing to compile there packages on your own, you won't have to pay fees. If you stick to prebuild binaries, you have to pay.
UCS is either a replacement or a teamplayer *with* AD.
Freedb and Gracenote had been in competition but they never sued freedb.
Never. Although they tried some scare tactics on freedb once or twice with
their patents, all of the time Gracenote played fair with freedb.
Andrew,
set up a _free_ service, operate it for 7 years, become successful with it and shut up until then. It takes more than you probably can handle on your own. Jörg and Ari left me after the *thought* you would play fair. To my knowledge, freedb2.org is still operated on YOUR own. Please explain, why Jörg and Ari refused to work with you.
Excellent idea.
Next step: reduce power consumption.
> People have been trying to find a use for pie
> menus for over a decade and still haven't.
Have you ever tried Maya/Alias Wavefront?
It's offering a variant of pie menus for a couple of years and many CG-artists do really love them.
You're completely wrong.
Did you ever worked for a project that takes more that 15 hours a week of your spare time to set up and start working? Right now, it takes even more time to keep this service running.
We spend/spent a lot of time an money getting where we are now, we are doing this for fun and to don't even think about commercial ads on our website or charing the user for the service or ANY other way to lower our personal financial expenses and we try to assure everyone that freedb will NEVER take the gracenote-way. That's why we put everything under an open licence.
This sounds just like the PalmPilot Dilbert mission statement generator...
It appears that most of Gracenote's bitching is about the "unauthorized derivative" status of FreeDB. They're claiming that FreeDB is using data from their servers, and acting as though FreeDB were still somehow reliant on the CDDB system. Is this in any way true? I like FreeDB, but I can see Gracenote's point if there's actually a link between FreeDB and the CDDB database.
;-)
freedb.org started with the last archives of the former free cddb that've been floating aroung. As the archives have been distributed with a GPL'ed program (xmcd) chances are that those archives are under the GPL, too
With this initial database, freedb.org did never rip (or even tries to) cddb's database, freedb.org got all their entries from usersubmissions.
They cannot sue freedb.org, because it's a German project which means that US patent laws do NOT apply.
freedb.org is currently located in Germany with a couple of mirrors.
Hi, please, don't use the web-based search. It's a "proof of concept". Nothing more.
It's already done.
Try telnet freecddb.freecddb.org port 888
It's running version 1.3.1 of cddb and has about 120,000 CDs online but it lacks the web/cgi-interface.
You can telnet freecddb.freecddb.org port 888 (212.86.129.8) and check it out.
Submissions will not be updated automatically by now.
No cgi availible yet, so if anyone has a pointer to where I can find "the" cgi-script, please let me know.
If there are any efforts to create a free database, please contact me.