Ken,
Thank you.
Tyler,
I don't know why I had missed that issue. Thank you! Do we need to worry
about licensing issues if we effectively copy and paste from
/usr/share/misc/magic (say, on rhel)? I didn't see a license in the file, and
I guess it is in the public domain?
I realize that we can't just copy and paste wholesale based on Nick's points,
but for those that we can "re-implement" by our methods, can we use that file?
Best,
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Palsulich [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 11:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: comparing Tika's file detect with other tools?
Hi Tim,
I do not know about if there would be licensing concerns. But, we do have
TIKA-289 to track merging magic bytes from `file` into Tika.
Tyler
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Ken Krugler <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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
>
>
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