[mb-users] "The need for free and open music metadata", but MB not good enough

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Indeed. It's actually ShareAlike clause which breaks things. I
wouldn't matter if the rest of the license was semantically indentical
to GFDL, they'd still be incompatible.

Philip

On 4/27/08, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <freso.dk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Taylor skrev:
>
> > What I dont understand is can this guy just merge wikipedia and
> musicbrainz data, I thought wikipedia used a different license which
> prevented Musicbrainz from just automatically sucking in useful info it did
> have.
> >
>
>  I wondered about the exact same thing, so I went to take a look[1]. As long
> as he's just using the factual data (ie., data which is un-copyrightable
> anyway), he should be clear to freely pull in data from our side at least.
> However, as soon as they wish to pull in regular updates from MusicBrainz
> through the LiveDataFeed, the have to subject to the CC by-nc-sa[2], which
> means they have to release _their_ data under CC by-nc-sa.
>
>  Wikipedia's GFDL[3] is also a viral license[4], so either way, they'll have
> to make their data available under this license too. However, if they do
> this, they can't pull in our LiveDataFeed, as the "nc" at least marks a
> difference between the two licenses – the GFDL doesn't stop anyone from
> making money off the data[4]!
>
>  [1] http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzLicense
>  [2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
>  [3]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License
>  [4] "You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document [...],
> provided that you release the Modified Version under precisely this License,
> [...]" (source [3])
>  [5] "You may copy and distribute the [text] in any medium, either
> commercially or noncommercially, [...]" (source [3])
>
>  --
>  Sincerely,
>  Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <http://freso.dk/>
>
>
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