Excerpts from paul.joseph.davis's message of Fri Jul 18 08:36:14 +1000 2008: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:36:05PM -0400, Dean Landolt wrote: > >> Or CLucene (for those of us with a violent distaste for all things Java). I > >> just learned about a new FTI option: Hyper Estraier -- also GPL, sadly, but > >> according to some benchmarks I stumbled across a good bit faster than both > >> Xapian and Lucene. And the GPL issue shouldn't be an issue if we're not > >> distributing the bindings (hyperestraier has pure-python bindings in PyPI > >> (that pyndexter already uses)). > > > > Does this not apply to Xapian too? > > > > What is the problem with the GPL as long as we don't distribute the > > bindings? > > It depends on what license the bindings are released under. Assuming > they're GPL'd like Xapian's then the answer is that we distribute > separately. To me that's a slight annoyance. Pyndexter appears to be > under a BSDish license judging from the COPYING file. Not that I read > it, but it looks like the same format and length.
It seems that Hyper Estraier is LGPL which means that you will be able to distribute it. rgh > > > > -- > > Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/ > > -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [e]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [im]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum
