jon * wrote:
>
> on 4/14/00 7:26 PM, Kevin A. Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > http://lucene.sourceforge.net/
>
> This is totally cool. The engineer of this worked on V-Twin which is totally
> kickass search engine technology he developed at Apple, probably some of the
> best stuff developed in a long time. It is now integrated into the core of
> the MacOS. Very cool.
Yeah. That and he works with me at Excite.... except I haven't met him
yet :) (works in Oregon)
> I used to alpha/beta test it back in the day under NDA disclosure. The
> problem with it is that it was only implemented in C++ and ran on MacOS so I
> couldn't use it (I wasn't about to learn C++ and the MacOS was taking a nose
> dive at the time). Regardless, the RFP written up on it is extremely well
> done and showed the power of his software.
>
> I totally look forward to integrating this software into our tools. One
> problem with it is that it seems that only the .class files are distributed
> with it. I guess the files are in CVS though. The other problem is that it
> is GPL. ;-(
GPL is fine. APL and GPL are the only real licenses IMO. The truth is
that all OSS licenses are obsolete and will eventually fall to the GPL
once companies realize there is no more money to make in OSS.
Kevin
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