RE: Responding to your CDDB Inquiries (fwd)

Justin R. Erenkrantz (justin nospam at erenkrantz.com)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:00:49 -0800

>You certainly are entitled to express your views freely on Slashdot or any
>other newsgroups. My concern is that your current requests for information
>are not really intended to understand our licensing requirements, but
rather
>are intended to gather "fuel for the fire" in your other efforts. If your
>requests are honorable in their intention, we will be happy to reply.

"fuel for the fire" What??? Can someone consult a lawyer to see if Escient
are in bounds here?? IIRC, once something is GPLed, it can't be retracted.
If the CDDB servers AND clients were GPLed (as was the case), then the
protocol seems to me to be in public domain. Any additions Escient has made
since the GPL MIGHT be out of bounds, but that is quite a reach. Plus, what
are the legal bounds for "reverse engineering?" We have both the client and
server GPLed code, gee - shouldn't be too hard. ;-)

Go Mike. Keep us posted.

Justin

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