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2009 Aug 07
1
Licensing
...hot is likely to be that they'll amend
their license (it's a corporate foundation, and 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 cur...
2012 Sep 07
3
GPL as the main reason why Xapian might not get the widespread success it deserves?
Hi,
I realise that the GPL license question has been discussed in 2003 and
in 2007, extensively. Back then, the conclusion seem to have been that
in-process usage is not possible for most use-cases and that instead, a
network layer/IPC mechanism is required to use Xapian with any non-GPL
software.
I think the project is severely undermining its own potential success. I
see that there are even