Yea, was mainly thinking about making some adapter classes which lets us plug in whatever Google may come up with later.
Constellio are probably allowed to license their own code under what license they choose, but the Solr part will still be Apache licensed and must contain license info. Question is whether GPL allows their mixing of licenses, which would depend on how they link the stuff together.. -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com On 23. sep. 2010, at 12.00, Karl Wright wrote: > I looked briefly at the Constellio offering when it was announced > yesterday. The big problem with the offering they released is that > they are licensed under GPL v3. Otherwise we could easily base new > ACF connectors on their code. In fact, I was wondering how exactly > they managed to relicense Apache stuff (Solr and Lucene) as GPL - not > sure that's legal, actually. > > The code they refer to is Apache 2.0 license, however, so we could > certainly try to leverage that. But other than that, they don't seem > to have any connectors ACF doesn't already have: > > * Google Search Appliance Connector for SharePoint > * Google Search Appliance Connector for Documentum > * Google Search Appliance Connector for Livelink > * Google Search Appliance Connector for FileNet > * Google Search Appliance Connector for File Systemsbeta > * Google Search Appliance Connector for Databasesbeta > > They have stuff in their "enterprise lab" that might be of interest: > > * Google Search Appliance Connector for Salesforcelab feature > * Google Search Appliance Connector for Noteslab feature > > I have no access to Notes or Salesforce to explore connector > implementations for these - does anybody in the field? > > Karl > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Jan Høydahl / Cominvent > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just saw the announcement for Constellio open source search >> (http://search.lucidimagination.com/search/document/272a57d786a9467c/) >> >> They are using GSA connectors from >> http://code.google.com/p/googlesearchapplianceconnectors/ >> Is this something that we could leverage, by adding ACF adapters for these >> beasts? >> >> -- >> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect >> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com >> >>
