On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excerpts from paul.joseph.davis's message of Fri Jul 18 08:36:14 +1000 2008: >> 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. > > It seems that Hyper Estraier is LGPL which means that you will be able to > distribute it. > > rgh > > >> > >> > -- >> > Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/ >> > > > -- > +61 (0) 410 646 369 > [e]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [im]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and > I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet > them - Marcus Ranum >
I would prefer one stable search api rather than only one external tool packaged with couchdb. So people can use the tool they want : GPL or not, with the language they want. Obviously a full search engine in erlang integrated in couchdb would be perfect. I don't know if some already exist ? - benoît
