I don't know where you're checking, but you're very wrong. CDDB (and it's data), when it was started, was GNU GPL. This was back in the mid-90s. I know, because I was there inputting data into the CDDB database and getting lots of good information about other CDs in my collection from the fledgling CDDB database.
When FreeDB forked, they took the last freely available GPL codebase and dataset, and went off to continue what Ti Kan started. I'm not sure where you get the idea that data use can't be governed under the GPL, or that owning the copyright to something can be used to revoke a previous license to something that you've already given. Since Ti Kan owned the copyright to the CDDB, he's free to change it and profit off of it, but what's he's already put out there as GPL is, and shall always remain, free software. FreeDB hasn't done anything wrong.
Actually, shooting someone with a large caliber handgun at close range, or a rifle at most any range is likely to produce an exit wound. That actually will give you gore and splatter.
Actually, I'm still boycotting products that support either the MPAA and the RIAA. I don't have a DVD player; I'm no longer purchasing VCR tapes, music CDs, or anything thing else I can think of that would funnel money in that direction.
I did break my boycott to see LOTR, but I don't forsee anything else in the near future that will wrangle any money from me. I suspect that I'll break my boycott again in 2002 to see the second movie, but other than that, I intend to stand firm.
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I don't know where you're checking, but you're very wrong. CDDB (and it's data), when it was started, was GNU GPL. This was back in the mid-90s. I know, because I was there inputting data into the CDDB database and getting lots of good information about other CDs in my collection from the fledgling CDDB database.
When FreeDB forked, they took the last freely available GPL codebase and dataset, and went off to continue what Ti Kan started. I'm not sure where you get the idea that data use can't be governed under the GPL, or that owning the copyright to something can be used to revoke a previous license to something that you've already given. Since Ti Kan owned the copyright to the CDDB, he's free to change it and profit off of it, but what's he's already put out there as GPL is, and shall always remain, free software. FreeDB hasn't done anything wrong.
Wow! Look at that straw man fly! You knocked it over but good!
Re real violence:
Actually, shooting someone with a large caliber handgun at close range, or a rifle at most any range is likely to produce an exit wound. That actually will give you gore and splatter.
Do you have a link?
Oh, piffle. The article explains quite clearly that the Democrats did their own gerrymandering back in 1991. "One-sided", indeed.
The maps and analysis at fairvote.org are nice, though.
Actually, I'm still boycotting products that support either the MPAA and the RIAA. I don't have a DVD player; I'm no longer purchasing VCR tapes, music CDs, or anything thing else I can think of that would funnel money in that direction.
I did break my boycott to see LOTR, but I don't forsee anything else in the near future that will wrangle any money from me. I suspect that I'll break my boycott again in 2002 to see the second movie, but other than that, I intend to stand firm.