On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 14:07, Benjamin Walstrum wrote: > I have been in contact with Lawrence Philips who has > assured me that his code is in the public domain, and > is therefore completely available, eliminating any > legal difficulties related to the DoubleMetaphone > implementation.
I also wrote him a quick email, he gave me the same assurances. Submit you code to Bugzilla, and I'll make sure the patch is applied posthaste. Tim > > Let me know if (and how) to proceed. > > Ben > > > > > Ben, thanks for the contribution. We did have a > > DoubleMetaphone > > implementation available before the 1.1 release, but > > it was removed from > > the repository because of licensing questions > > relating to the fact that > > the code submitted was ported from a CPAN module > > covered under the Perl > > Artistic License. > > > > In this case, the file Dmetaph.cpp is Copyright > > 1998, 1999 Lawrence > > Philips, and there I can find no mention of what > > terms this code falls > > under. It may be wise to get the permission of the > > original author. > > I'm interested in this as I found DoubleMetaphone to > > be a useful > > algorithm. > > > > Tim > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
