Comment Re:My position... (Score 2, Informative) 210
I don't know where you're checking, but you're very wrong. CDDB (and it's data), when it was started, was GNU GPL. This was back in the mid-90s. I know, because I was there inputting data into the CDDB database and getting lots of good information about other CDs in my collection from the fledgling CDDB database.
When FreeDB forked, they took the last freely available GPL codebase and dataset, and went off to continue what Ti Kan started. I'm not sure where you get the idea that data use can't be governed under the GPL, or that owning the copyright to something can be used to revoke a previous license to something that you've already given. Since Ti Kan owned the copyright to the CDDB, he's free to change it and profit off of it, but what's he's already put out there as GPL is, and shall always remain, free software. FreeDB hasn't done anything wrong.
When FreeDB forked, they took the last freely available GPL codebase and dataset, and went off to continue what Ti Kan started. I'm not sure where you get the idea that data use can't be governed under the GPL, or that owning the copyright to something can be used to revoke a previous license to something that you've already given. Since Ti Kan owned the copyright to the CDDB, he's free to change it and profit off of it, but what's he's already put out there as GPL is, and shall always remain, free software. FreeDB hasn't done anything wrong.
