Absolutely--I'm very aware of how the various OS licenses work and we avoid GPL like the plague. In fact, doing a quick mental inventory of the OS stuff we've used, I believe that all of it has been under the Apache license. We tinkered with an LGPL project once, but never actually used it in production code.
"Robert A. Decker" wrote: > 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> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:lucene-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:lucene-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
