The license was later changed, however, and some programmers complained that the new license included certain terms that they couldn't accept: if one wanted to access CDDB, one was not allowed to access any other CDDB-like database (such as freedb), and any programs using a CDDB lookup had to display a CDDB logo while performing the lookup.
Licenca je kasnije promenjena, ali su se određeni programeri žalili kako nova licenca uključuje određene uslove koje oni ne mogu da prihvate: ako je neko želeo da pristupi CDDB-u, on nije mogao da pristupi drugim bazama podataka nalik na CDDB-u(kao sto je freedb) i svaki program koji koristi CDDB pronalaženje je morao da prikaže CDDB-ov logo dok izvodi pretragu.