On 26/03/2008, Daniel John Debrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nils Adermann wrote: > > > > Søren Hilmer wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> Took a quick look at Sphinx, and noticed that it licensed under GPL > >> v.2. That is probably a problem for integration into CouchDB, as it is > >> not compatiple with Apache v.2. > >> > >> see: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html > >> > >> --Søren > >> > >> > > Hi, > > > > unfortunately Sphinx doesn't make it very clear but it's released under > > "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later > > version." (as you can read in doc/Sphinx.html under 1.4 License) so you > > can just apply the terms of GPLv3 and you should be fine even if it > > required linking somewhere. > > > I don't think the issue is that GPLv2 is incompatible with the ALv2, > it's that the ASF only distributes software using ALv2. If couchdb pulls > in Sphinx then won't that make the combined program also GPL? > > See this draft of the licensing policy: > > http://people.apache.org/~rubys/3party.html > > Dan. >
This is, perhaps, an incredibly stupid question, but wouldn't integration with Solr (a sister Apache project for a full-text search engine built on Lucene that speaks HTTP + JSON (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/)) make sense as a first target? -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
