Editing MusicBrainz (section)

==Licensing==
Since 2003,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/news/licenses.html|title=MusicBrainz Licenses|access-date=2015-10-23|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030413174459/https://musicbrainz.org/news/licenses.html|archive-date=April 13, 2003 }}</ref> MusicBrainz's core data (artists, recordings, releases, and so on) are in the [[public domain]], and additional content, including moderation data (essentially every [[Threshold of originality|original content]] contributed by users and its elaborations), is placed under the Creative Commons [[CC BY-NC-SA]]-2.0 license.<ref>[https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainz_License?oldid=33484 MusicBrainz License] as of 13-11-2010.</ref> The [[relational database management system]] is [[PostgreSQL]]. The server software is covered by the [[GNU General Public License]].
The MusicBrainz client [[Library (computing)|software library]], ''libmusicbrainz'', is licensed under the [[GNU Lesser General Public License]], which allows use of the code by proprietary software products.

In December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the MetaBrainz Foundation – a [[non-profit]] group based in [[San Luis Obispo, California]] – by its creator Robert Kaye.<ref name="metabrainz_announcement">{{cite press release|first=Robert|last=Kaye|title=The MetaBrainz Foundation launches!|date=2006-03-12|publisher=MusicBrainz community blog|url=http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=102|access-date=2006-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519073229/http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=102|archive-date=2011-05-19|url-status=live }}</ref> On 20 January 2006, the first commercial venture to use MusicBrainz data was the [[Barcelona]], Spain-based ''Linkara'' in their "Linkara Música" service.<ref>{{cite news|first=Robert|last=Kaye|url=http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2006/01/introducing_lin_1.html|title=Introducing: Linkara Musica|publisher=MusicBrainz|date=2006-01-20|access-date=2006-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907114640/http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2006/01/introducing_lin_1.html|archive-date=2008-09-07|url-status=live }}</ref>

On 28 June 2007, [[BBC]] announced that it had licensed MusicBrainz's live data feed to augment their music web pages. The [[BBC Music|BBC online music editors]] would also join the MusicBrainz community to contribute their knowledge to the database.<ref>{{cite news|first=Robert|last=Kaye|url=http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2007/06/the_bbc_partner.html|title=The BBC partners with MusicBrainz for Music Metadata|publisher=MusicBrainz|date=2007-06-28|access-date=2007-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630132119/http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2007/06/the_bbc_partner.html|archive-date=2007-06-30|url-status=live }}</ref>

On 28 July 2008, the beta of the new BBC Music site was launched, which publishes a page for each MusicBrainz artist.<ref>{{cite news|first=Matthew|last=Shorter|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/07/bbc_music_artist_pages_beta.html|title=BBC Music Artist Pages Beta|publisher=BBC|date=2008-07-28|access-date=2009-02-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124015619/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/07/bbc_music_artist_pages_beta.html|archive-date=2009-01-24|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/brainz  MusicBrainz and the BBC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220070709/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/brainz/|date=2018-02-20 }} as of 2013-03-16</ref>