Your boss should be very worried about the software being brought into your projects - not because of security but because of viral licenses. The GPL is particularly heinous. The apache and FreeBSD licenses are excellent. Take a look at: http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a//policy/2001/12/12/transition.html http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html
thanks, rob http://www.robdecker.com/ http://www.planetside.com/ On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Craig Walls wrote: > > Unofficially, my company is using Lucene for searching for products and projects on > our web-site. By "unofficially" I mean that while my boss knows that we're using > Lucene, my boss' boss doesn't know because he's very reluctant to buy into this > open-source thing. (We've used other OS projects in our own projects as well...it's > been a "don't ask, don't tell" kinda thing.) > > We launched our new search about 2 weeks ago and it rocks! In the end, we've fully > met and in many cases exceeded expectations with Lucene, but they just don't know > that we're using Lucene. > > Rob Outar wrote: > > > All, > > > > I am trying to sell my lead on using this awesome search\indexing engine, > > but he wants to know the user base for this product. He wants to be assured > > that if we choose this products that it will not go away, and that we will > > have some form of support. Worst case of course is we do have the source. > > Anyhow if anyone can let me know what the user base is, or anything that > > would lead to some assurance for him, I would greatly appreciate it. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rob > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:lucene-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:lucene-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:lucene-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:lucene-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:lucene-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:lucene-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
