search for: brightstation

...dest commit in the Xapian repo is: commit 8ced76ea128c8fb2792477e09b41fa989f2e572f Author: Richard Boulton <richard at tartarus.org> Date: Fri Sep 10 09:50:40 1999 +0000 Martins initial code, which didn't work for him but did for me. Back then Richard, Martin and I all worked for BrightStation, and Richard and I were working in a small office high above the foyer of St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge, UK - just behind the "/" strut below the highest part of the roof about 1/4 in from the right of the photo on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Innovation_Cent...

...ething we actually chose for Xapian, but rather due to a historical accident - it's the licence of the codebase that Xapian was originally based on. To briefly summarise that early history, Xapian has evolved out of a codebase known as "Open Muscat" which was released under GPLv2+ by BrightStation PLC (most recent contribution 2001). We don't have permission to relicense BrightStation's code. After BrightStation stopped developing the code, there were some contributions copyrighted Ananova Ltd (most recent 2002) and then a very small number from Orange PCS Ltd which took over Anano...

...seen Xapian index of this size. And of course you can search the index by yourself at - http://myhealthcare.com/ - http://find1friend.com/ I need 2 x 100 million more documents into each index, and I hope it will fit on one hard disk of 2TB, and I will soon beat single handedly the largest Xapian BrightStation's Webtop search engine implementation (archive.org snapshot), which offered a sub-second search over around 500 million web pages (around 1.5 terabytes of database files). Reference: http://xapian.org/history One sample index size: total 475G -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin kevin 28 2010-12-18 15:25 iam...

...t how best to use cvs2svn to convert the CVS repo. I'm wondering if we want to strip out some of the tags - in particular the old snapshot_* tags. These mark points when the code was know to bootstrap and pass "make distcheck" on x86 linux, but the newest is 2001/04/24 - back in the BrightStation days! In the unlikely event that anyone really cares, they can use the old CVS tree. Or perhaps we shouldn't keep serving that to avoid confusion. I'm not totally decided myself. Converting both with and without the snapshot tags gives repo sizes of 92508K and 90500K so there probably i...

...d GPL compatibility is something they desire for precisely this reason), it did prompt me to think about how we're tracking where we are on the license issue. As per <http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/FAQ/CommercialLicence>, we have a clear idea of who owns what (modulo some uncertainty around Brightstation copyright ownership). Certainly for easily-contactable entities, we know who contributed to which file, and indeed could figure out ownership down to the change level. It strikes me that, given many of the current contributors to Xapian are agreed in principle in a bright and shiny future of LGPL...

Questions are threaded into the output: ******************** #./configure --without-python checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking