On Wednesday 17 December 2014 12:58:27 Vishesh Handa wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > > I think Jonathan should respond to it. Your argumentation makes sense to > > me, > > but the question is whether Baloo is currently derived work of Xapian or > > not. > > If there is baloo internal an abstraction allowing to easily swap out > > Xapian > > by something different I would say it's not derived work. But if Xapian is > > deeply wired into Baloo I would say it's derived work. > > I've thought about this some more. Here is the current situation - > > * We have the baloo_file executable which has a lot of Xapian code, which > is not trivial to replace. > * We have the Baloo library, which does the searching through Xapian. This > part is very very well abstracted out. In fact it started out allowing > other search providers. > > However, Johnathon tells me that just the fact that the Baloo library is > linking against Xapian is enough to make it GPL.
May I ask the question why Baloo should become a framework in the first place? On Windows or Mac, people won't use it anyways, no? Or is it required there for e.g. searches in KMail? Bye -- Milian Wolff m...@milianw.de http://milianw.de _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel