Remember CDDB?
Posted Mar 31, 2005 12:29 UTC (Thu) by
denials (subscriber, #3413)
Parent article:
De.visi.ve?
CDDB was an extremely popular collaborative project to collect the titles
and songlists for CDs so that CD players could automatically retrieve
those lists and display them in realtime. It was a wild success, and the
source code was GPL -- until the founders sold out and the owning company,
Gracenote, banned any non-licensed applications from accessing the
database. Those who had contributed songlists to the CDDB database
discovered that the data itself was not freely available.
So FreeDB came along and provided a truly open alternative -- both source
and data are free, and there are no restrictions on applications accessing
the FreeDB databases.
There is much to be learned from the CDDB / FreeDB experience. de.liri.ous
is probably a very good idea, especially with the news that de.lici.ous
plans to go commercial.
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