Gracenote licensing controversy
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gracenote-licensing-controversy-167-10584672
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Gracenote licensing controversy
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Music information company Gracenote changed its database terms to closed-source in 2001. This caused some controversy because Gracenote's ancestor, CDDB, had previously said its database was released under the GPL. In 1998, CDDB was purchased by Escient, a consumer electronics manufacturer, and operated as a business unit within the Indiana-based company. CDDB was then spun off of Escient and in July 2000 was renamed Gracenote. In 1999, freedb, an open source clone of the Gracenote CDDB service,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracenote_licensing_controversy
date created:
2011-03-26T17:19:36Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T11:41:53Z
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