Re: comparing Tika's file detect with other tools?

2015-04-22 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, Copyright also covers databases, so we'll need to honor the license terms equally when copying file's code or detection patterns. Luckily file (from http://www.darwinsys.com/file/) comes under a BSD license, so reusing the code or data is quite simple from a licensing perspective. In fact

RE: comparing Tika's file detect with other tools?

2015-04-22 Thread Allison, Timothy B.
Oops, our emails passed in the ether. Thank you, Jukka! -Original Message- From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:jukka.zitt...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 12:06 PM To: dev@tika.apache.org Subject: Re: comparing Tika's file detect with other tools? Hi, Copyright also covers

RE: comparing Tika's file detect with other tools?

2015-04-22 Thread Allison, Timothy B.
11:34 AM To: dev@tika.apache.org 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

comparing Tika's file detect with other tools?

2015-04-22 Thread Allison, Timothy B.
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

Re: comparing Tika's file detect with other tools?

2015-04-22 Thread Tyler Palsulich
: 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

RE: comparing Tika's file detect with other tools?

2015-04-22 Thread Ken Krugler
22, 2015 5:47:17am PDT To: dev@tika.apache.org 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