MetaBrainz Foundation
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The MetaBrainz Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit based in San Luis Obispo, California
, that operates the MusicBrainz
project.
With the creation of the MetaBrainz Foundation on 2005-04-19, the MusicBrainz project entered its second phase of life. In the first incarnation, the project had been privately maintained and had focused primarily on collecting just basic music metadata. Today the MusicBrainz project has grown considerably since then, and using the legal backing and infrastructure of the MetaBrainz Foundation, it continues to thrive and expand its scope.
San Luis Obispo, California
San Luis Obispo is a city in California, located roughly midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles on the Central Coast. Founded in 1772 by Spanish Fr. Junipero Serra, San Luis Obispo is one of California’s oldest communities...
, that operates the MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music database. Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB...
project.
With the creation of the MetaBrainz Foundation on 2005-04-19, the MusicBrainz project entered its second phase of life. In the first incarnation, the project had been privately maintained and had focused primarily on collecting just basic music metadata. Today the MusicBrainz project has grown considerably since then, and using the legal backing and infrastructure of the MetaBrainz Foundation, it continues to thrive and expand its scope.
External links
- MetaBrainz
- This article contains text from the MetaBrainz website, which is licensed under the GPLGNU General Public LicenseThe GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
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- This article contains text from the MetaBrainz website, which is licensed under the GPL