freedb has been taken over by a private, for-profit company and there are big changes going on:
http://www.freedb.org/ Note there's a prominent "beta" logo on the site. > Text-based search online again > > The functionality of the old, well-known text-based search engine is > available again with some optimizations at www.freedb.org. We are > planning further improvements with regard to usability and expert > search, speed and shortcuts, which explains the beta version status. > Continuation of the free database guaranteed > > With the acquisition of the www.freedb.org domain MAGIX also takes on > all duties regarding the worldwide freedb community: > > * the entire freedb service has been running since the middle of > September on the MAGIX servers (including the FTP download function of > the open source database and archive) > * this service will remain license-free and will be available for > unrestricted use by any commercial or non-commercial user or developer > * all updates to the database will also continue to be regularly > and freely available > * the licence for the data and the corresponding server or service > software will remain under GPL > > Furthermore, MAGIX runs the mirror server and hosts the website as well > as the new forum. This secures a basis for theprosperity of freedb and > its main aim: the data collected by the users for the users will be > kept freely available in thefuture - guaranteed. MAGIX will add its > know-how to help with the continued development of the service > according to the GPL.Every developer from the present community is > invited to continue to actively contribute to the successful continuity > of freedb. Despite assurances to the contrary, I believe this can't be good. The same thing happened to CDDB which was converted into Gracenote and then closed to many applications. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40840 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
