Hi Tim, I don't believe there's any issue with comparing results.
If you were looking at the source for "file", then it gets more gray, but I think even that would be OK as long as you weren't copying code or directly re-implementing algorithms. -- Ken > From: Allison, Timothy B. > Sent: April 22, 2015 5:47:17am PDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: comparing Tika's file detect with other tools? > > Would it be frowned upon to compare Tika's file detection with other tools, > like "file"? Any concerns about effectively reverse engineering (when we > find that Tika is wrong) from a non-Apache project? > > Any other sensitivities I should be aware of? > > Best, > > Tim -------------------------- Ken Krugler +1 530-210-6378 http://www.scaleunlimited.com custom big data solutions & training Hadoop, Cascading, Cassandra & Solr
