> Tony> * The license is a bit vague, unfortunately. > > skip> I suppose we ought to contact the authors, just to be on > the safe > skip> side. > > Perhaps it's not necessary. The README file says: > > This package contains the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine. > Orignally developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories Bristol and > at Hewlett Packard Co, Greeley Colorado, the majority of the code > in this distribution is now licensed under the Apache License: [...] > The Apache license is fine for our use, right?
Sigh. I don't know how I missed that (right at the top of the README), and yet managed to read the bit later on. > And built successfully, with a couple tweeks. After a bit of > juggling, I > got the executable into the proper spot, ran it, then got a segfault. > Unfortunately, the README file includes this: > > The C++ code makes heavy use of a list system using macros. This > predates stl, was portable before stl, and is more efficent > than stl > lists, but has the big negative that if you do get a segmentation > violation, it is hard to debug. > > It's certainly not ready for prime time. :( Ah, well, it was worth a shot. Thanks for doing the work! When I find some time to do some proper evaluation of the new experimental options, I might try it as well, as see how I go (out of curiosity). Were you building on OS X? =Tony.Meyer _______________________________________________ spambayes-dev mailing list spambayes-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes-dev
