To all users and developers of the project now called ManifoldCF: MetaCarta, Inc., has been contacted by Memex, which is a unit of SAS, that they believe that some components of the connector called the "Memex Connector", granted to the Apache Software Foundation as part of the initial MetaCarta to Apache software grant, violates the distribution agreement that was part of the Statement of Work that MetaCarta and Memex signed together in 2009. Attempts to negotiate with Memex to resolve this issue, which MetaCarta believes to be based on a misunderstanding, have not been successful.
While MetaCarta does not agree that Memex has a valid claim, it has nevertheless requested that all copies of the potentially offending software be removed from Apache servers, in the interest of avoiding legal action. They have also requested that a letter be sent to all known Apache users of the Connector, to request that they remove any copies of the software that they may retain. The files in question are the following, as given by their current svn paths: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lcf/trunk/modules/connectors/memex/connector/src/main/java/org/apache/manifoldcf/crawler/connectors/memex: LogicalServer.java ManifoldCFMemexConnection.java MemexAuthority.java MemexConnector.java MemexEntity.java and, in the testing area: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lcf/trunk/tests/memex-testing-package/org/apache/manifoldcf/crawler/connectors/memex/MemexSupport.java Thank you for your attention. Karl Wright