Re: [Freetantrum-devel] Failures so far.

[Scott R. S. <ss...@et...>]

"Myers W. Carpenter" wrote:
> 
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> >
> > Farmy (the CEO) has said (in IRC) that they plan on releasing the server
> > under GPL and the database under a 'GPL like licence; Potentially the
> > GPL'.
> 
>         Better the Open Content license.  It's made for this kind of stuff.
> 
>         I'm sure you are aware that musicbrainz.org (aka cdindex.org) is making
> a database just like this, using the other GPL'ed music fingerprinting
> software Relatable.  Right now the only way to get their code is to hack
> it out of FreeAmp, but it's out there.
> 
>         Just some notes.
> 
>                         myers

For the record, Im the CIO (Chief Information Officer), not the CEO.
Sure we know about Relatable, they're in our neighborhood as a matter of
fact. We know Tuneprint as well, indeed Geoff and I even had lunch
together sometime back. 

Greg Maxwell pointed out something very important in his post, eTantrum
is a business, so it's not as cut and dry as saying let's opensource
everything. There are other people here, with thier own opinions about
strategy on how we can become sucessful, whom I respect very much. These
things take time. Rest assured though, we talk about ways of making this
both a completely open project, that also makes good business sense
daily. 

Believe me when I say we're listening to you about licensing issues.
We're getting equal amounts of flack from open source advocates on 100%
access to the code, and from other businesses that can't use the SDK
because they are closed source. There are also issues with the data on
our end, that although we can use it in our business, and on our
servers, we had to purchase it, so we cant for example OCL that. 

Its quite the quagmire :) But, we will come up with a solution to all
this, because we want to do the right thing.

Thanks,

--
Scott Shinn
CIO / Co-founder
eTantrum.com, Inc.