MetaBrainz Launched
Mike Linksvayer, April 19th, 2005
After years of toil the free music encyclopedia MusicBrainz is now backed by a nonprofit foundation with a fantastic best-of-the-usual-suspects board.
MusicBrainz has taken an innovative approach to open data: core factual information (artist, album, track) is appropriately dedicated to the public domain, while community generated information is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
Also check out MetaBrainz’s exemplary practice of keeping transparent finances.
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