On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:36:05PM -0400, Dean Landolt wrote: >> Or CLucene (for those of us with a violent distaste for all things Java). I >> just learned about a new FTI option: Hyper Estraier -- also GPL, sadly, but >> according to some benchmarks I stumbled across a good bit faster than both >> Xapian and Lucene. And the GPL issue shouldn't be an issue if we're not >> distributing the bindings (hyperestraier has pure-python bindings in PyPI >> (that pyndexter already uses)). > > Does this not apply to Xapian too? > > What is the problem with the GPL as long as we don't distribute the bindings?
It depends on what license the bindings are released under. Assuming they're GPL'd like Xapian's then the answer is that we distribute separately. To me that's a slight annoyance. Pyndexter appears to be under a BSDish license judging from the COPYING file. Not that I read it, but it looks like the same format and length. > > -- > Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/ >
