Re: Gnome-Media 1.100.0 released

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, gary little wrote:

> Iain,
> 
> Has anyone taken a close look at the CDDB licensing ramifications?
> 
> See:
> 
> http://www.cddb.com/dev/licensing.html
> 
> This page seems to indicate that a license is required to access the CDDB
> database if the software is commercial. Commercial is defined as generating
> revenue from -- software sales, licensing, or shareware fees; upgrade,
> full-version, or support fees; revenue from advertising, links, or
> e-commerce on a web site that provides a link from which the application
> can be downloaded. This definition is broad enough to make distributions of
> GNOME by companies such as Sun, Red Hat, Ximian, etc. fall into the
> commercial category, thus requiring a license
> 
> 
> Am I missing something here? Perhaps the license is needed only for those
> using the Gracenote source code to develop a CDDB application, not for
> independently developed code that accesses the database through a public
> protocol.

the debian project came across this issue already, from doc/xmcd/WEB.gz:

 The original CDDB database server has now gone commercial.  We encourage you
 to submit to the FreeDB project instead - http://www.freedb.org.  As of
 xmcd-2.6-1 the Debian package has been changed to prefer freedb.org.

[and please don't cc gnome-announce-list]

> 
> Gary
> 

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ciaoTJ