LGPL licenses and Apache aren't exactly compatible, see:

http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#transition-examples-lgpl
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x

In practice, this was the reason we started the SIS project.

Cheers,
Chris

On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Smiley, David W. wrote:

> (This is one of those messages that I would have responded to at the time if 
> I only noticed it.)
> 
> There is not yet indexing of arbitrary shapes (i.e. your data can only be 
> points), but with SOLR-2155 you can query via WKT thanks to JTS.  If you want 
> to index shapes then you'll have to wait a month or two for work that is 
> underway right now.  It's coming; be patient.
> 
> I don't see the LGPL licensing as a problem; it's *L*GPL, not GPL, after all. 
>  In SOLR-2155 the patch I take measures to download this library dynamically 
> at build time and compile against it.  JTS need not ship with Solr; the user 
> can get it themselves if they want this capability.  Non-JTS query shapes 
> should work without the presence of JTS.
> 
> ~ David Smiley
> Author: http://www.packtpub.com/solr-1-4-enterprise-search-server/
> 
> On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Adam Estrada wrote:
> 
>> I just came across a ~nudge post over in the SIS list on what the status is 
>> for that project. This got me looking more in to spatial mods with Solr4.0.  
>> I found this enhancement in Jira. 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2155. In this issue, David 
>> mentions that he's already integrated JTS in to Solr4.0 for querying on 
>> polygons stored as WKT. 
>> 
>> It's relatively easy to get WKT strings in to Solr but does the Field type 
>> exist yet? Is there a patch or something that I can test out? 
>> 
>> Here's how I would do it using GDAL/OGR and the already existing csv update 
>> handler. http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html
>> 
>> ogr2ogr -f CSV output.csv input.shp -lco GEOMETRY=AS_WKT
>> This converts a shapefile to a csv with the geometries in tact in the form 
>> of WKT. You can then get the data in to Solr by running the following 
>> command.
>> curl 
>> "http://localhost:8983/solr/update/csv?commit=true&separator=%2C&fieldnames=id,attr1,attr2,attr3,geom&stream.file=C:\tmp\output.csv&overwrite=true&stream.contentType=text/plain;charset=utf-8";
>> There are lots of flavors of geometries so I suspect that this will be a 
>> daunting task but because JTS recognizes each geometry type it should be 
>> possible to work with them. 
>> Does anyone know of a patch or even when this functionality might be 
>> included in to Solr4.0? I need to query for polygons ;-)
>> Thanks,
>> Adam


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