On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Matthias Krueger wrote:
I ran a diff on tika-mimetypes.xml and the latest Freedesktop share MIME
info DB release (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/). It
seems they have diverged quite a lot.
I don't think they've ever been the same. We use their XML format, but not
their data. Our data comes from a mixture of places, initially the httpd
mimetypes file, along with lots of bug reports, fixes etc since them. We
also support one or two types that they don't
Or is licensing in the way (I think they dual license with LGPL anf AFL
2.0)?
They can take our nice work, but we can't theirs. The Apache License v2 is
largely a universal donner license. LGPL and friends are largely not - see
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x . (It's largely the
same thing with OpenOffice - LibreOffice are welcome to take fixes from
Apache OpenOffice, and they do, but AOO can only take LO fixes where the
contributor explicitly allows their changes to be Apache licensed)
Nick
