CcHost
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ccHost is a web-based media hosting engine upon which Creative Commons
' ccMixter
remix web community is built. The software is written in PHP
and uses the MySQL
database server. In 2005 it won Linux World's award for Best Open Source solution.
As Nathan Willis wrote :
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
' ccMixter
CcMixter
ccMixter.org is a community music site that promotes remix culture and makes samples, remixes, and a cappella tracks licensed under Creative Commons available for download and re-use in creative works. Visitors are able to listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in a variety of ways...
remix web community is built. The software is written in PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
and uses the MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
database server. In 2005 it won Linux World's award for Best Open Source solution.
As Nathan Willis wrote :
At ccMixterCcMixterccMixter.org is a community music site that promotes remix culture and makes samples, remixes, and a cappella tracks licensed under Creative Commons available for download and re-use in creative works. Visitors are able to listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in a variety of ways...
, musicians and DJs are using Creative CommonsCreative CommonsCreative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
licensing to share music content and build a community of artists, thanks to the open source back-end system ccHost, an infrastructure designed to facilitate storage, tracking, and sharing of multimedia content.
Participants
- Victor Stone
- Lucas GonzeLucas GonzeLucas Gonze is the creator of Webjay.Lead author of XSPF.Creator of Personal home page...
- Jon Phillips
- Bryce Harrington
- Dave Crossland
- Ben Weiner
- Andy Fitzsimon
- Ryan Lerch