The feelin is, the data has got to be free, and not just I'm friendly free
but here's the license and db dump free. When the project gets going a
submission of 17k cd's may be very welcome.
Releasing the code that you use is a sort of "so what" excersize... Many
people on this list code, and actualy implementing a cddb replacement
wouldn't take long (CD Index is already accepting submissions). It is the
data that is important, even though I feel the server side stuff should be
GPL'd or similiar. That said, there is a lot of excitment over doing it
right this time around, so any input you have on how it should be done would
probably be great... If you wanted to throw out your data as well for
everybody to fool around with even better...
Simply being more flexible than Escient is probably not going to cut it
here, and the making money part? Sure, if you also give the data away so
that others can make money on it, or provide it free :).
Glad you found the list... Welcome...
August
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bierman <pmb nospam at mycds.com>
To: cdindex nospam at freeamp.org <cdindex nospam at freeamp.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 8:25 PM
Subject: www.mycds.com is a cddb killer w/17,000 cds
I wrote/run www.mycds.com, which I've been working on as a CDDB killer
since before cddb went online. I've been sidetracked by college, and my
full time job at Apple, but I'm still chugging away.
I'm wondering if we can work together on a CD database. On one hand, I'm
not sure how I can afford to run the server if all of the data is free, on
the other hand, I'm sure that if someone collects hundreds of thousands of
CDs, and makes the data free, there won't be much point to my data.
I've had quite a few cddb developers contact me in the last few weeks
because of cddb's changes. I want to be more flexible than cddb, and I want
to / think I can make money off the web presentation of the data.
I'm *very* pro Open Source, but I'll admit I think the GPL is a bit
overboard. I've been pondering releasing my code for several months now.
Care to chat?
-pmb
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