On Mar 23, 2008, at 19:10 , Søren Hilmer wrote:
Sure, It was the glue code that uses Sphinx' API directly I was
referring to,
and while I am also not a lawyer, I agree that "linkage" using stdio
should
not be a problem.
Actually what CouchDB is then doing is to provide a stdio interface
for
integrating fulltextsearch engines, and supply a reference
implementation of
this interface using Lucene.
Exactly :)
Jan
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On Sunday 23 March 2008 23:27, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
Hi,
On Mar 23, 2008, at 17:38 , Søren Hilmer wrote:
Hi
Took a quick look at Sphinx, and noticed that it licensed under GPL
v.2. That
is probably a problem for integration into CouchDB, as it is not
compatiple
with Apache v.2.
see: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
I am not lawyer but from how I understand it, we do not "link"
binaries
here and CouchDB is not entirely dependent on Sphinx. I know of a
few commercial GUIs to GPLed code (XTorrent, Rouge Amoeba's
programmes etc.) that use stdio to bridge GPL and non-GPL code
bases. From what I understand that is considered "legal" and we
are doing the same thing. So I think we can integrate Sphinx with
CouchDB. The code that uses the Sphinx API directly, that is the
Indexer and the Searcher would need to be under GPL though and
could not be distributed with CouchDB.
Cheers
Jan
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