On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:49:56AM -0400, Dean Landolt wrote: > > So the upshot of this seems to be that we can use Xapian, "link" to it and > > even > > bundle the source code if we wished. > > They're compatible, sure. But the downside is that by tying the packages > together you'd effectively be subjecting the whole project to the terms of > the GPL. Making a proprietary fork of the project would be made more > difficult (a fundamental right of the Apache license). Of course, this > doesn't matter at all to me as I only deal in free software, but it > complicates things a bit. Apparently it scares the heck out of an awful lot > of suits. I remember how difficult it was for me to convince the Library of > Congress that they wouldn't have to release all their source code if I > integrated even an LGPL tool (TinyMCE) into one of their systems. They're > still not completely convinced. If it were plain GPL, I can't even imagine > how that would have went.
Okay, I will take this to apache-legal later today when I have time. Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll keep you all posted. -- Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/
