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Grant Ingersoll commented on CONNECTORS-116:
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In talking w/ Legal, we should remove the current code from trunk.
bq. If it is truly an IP issue, then no amount of clean-room implementation
will help here. They have been taking the approach that the code was not
licensed for this use, but also giving IP as the reason for their concern.
For better or worse, I'd consider any Memex code at this point to be tainted
and would likely -1 a supposed "clean room" implementation, b/c, IMO, it would
be too easy to say that it wasn't clean room. At any rate, it's Memex loss in
that all they are doing is making it harder for their software to be consumed
by the very people who have already paid them for their capabilities. Contrast
that with Sharepoint, who makes so much available for developers who want to
build upon Sharepoint capabilities. (And believe me, I'm no MS fanboy) How
anyone could think that making it easier to connect to your
software/capabilities is a bad thing is beyond me.
> Possibly remove memex connector depending upon legal resolution
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> Key: CONNECTORS-116
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-116
> Project: ManifoldCF
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Memex connector
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Assignee: Robert Muir
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> Apparently there is an IP problem with the memex connector code.
> Depending upon what apache legal says, we will take any action under this
> issue publicly.
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