Editing CDex (section)

==History==
In 2000, at the start of the beta phase for version 1.30, CDex was turned into a free software project (''cdexos'': ''CDex Open Source'') and hosted on [[SourceForge.net]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cdex.n3.net |title=CDex Home Page |accessdate=2016-04-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000304153520/http://cdex.n3.net/ |archivedate=2000-03-04 }}</ref>
In January 2006, the CDex homepage requested a new project manager and developer, implying that Albert L. Faber had abandoned development of CDex.  On 5 June 2006, CDex 1.70 Beta 1 was released via the SourceForge.net website (ascribed to Georgy Berdyshev). It was the first official update to the program in almost three years, with CDex 1.70 Beta 2 following soon after on 23 June 2006. In 2008 Berdyshev was joined by Ariane Gomes as project developers. On 18 November 2009 CDex 1.70 Beta 4 was released. CDex 1.70 Final was released on 29 June 2014 featuring a Unicode and Multibyte version.

On 30 June 2007, just one day after the release of the [[GNU General Public License#Version 3|GPLv3]], the license of CDex was updated. However, the last version for which source code was made available is 1.70 Beta 2, and the SourceForge project appears to have been shut down in July 2015, shortly after the release of version 1.79.

From version 1.76 the [[installer]] includes the [[adware]] [[OpenCandy]].

In November 2017 version 1.96 was released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cdex.mu/ |title=Project home page |accessdate=2018-03-05 }}</ref> It is not clear who is the current code maintainer, and no contact details are provided. Four further versions were released by March 2018.

The default Remote Server database in CDEx, [[Freedb]], became inaccessible by June 2020.  The gnudb.org site at location gnudb.gnudb.org (on HTTP port 80) using proxy.gnudb.org works as a replacement for the inactive default Remote Server database.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=How to use the gnudb.org site|url=http://gnudb.org/howto.php|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121020423/http://www.gnudb.org:80/howto.php |archive-date=2012-01-21 |access-date=|website=GNU Database}}</ref>