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Chris A. Mattmann commented on TIKA-6:
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Hi Bertrand:
Thanks for reviewing the patch. I should have made this more clear earlier, so
I apoligize. "Jerome" referenced in my prior comment is Jerome Charron. Jerome
and I were the ones that originally came up with the idea for Tika while
working on the Nutch project, and we proposed it to the list then. Jerome is
one of the Nutch committers, as you noted above and had earlier contributed a
MimeType repository capability to Nutch, but had not updated it for a while.
Jerome had told me that he was working on a new version based on
Freedesktop.org's mime system.
AFAIK, with respect to question #1, I think it's ok to distribute the
freedesktop.org mime database with our system because it's GPL.
With respect to question #2, I'm -1 for making the mime database a separate
module. It was intended to be one of the core functionalitie and contributions
of the Tika library, and provides much value added for a content analysis
toolkit (mime detection is an integral part of it). Jerome and I had originally
thought about taking the mime DB (before Tika) to jakarta commons, however,
that idea evolved from providing a simple mime detection library to a
full-fledged content analysis toolkit library, that including mime detection,
Tika.
> Port Nutch (or better) MimeType detection system into Tika
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> Key: TIKA-6
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-6
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: general
> Affects Versions: 0.1-incubator
> Environment: Improvement is indep. of environment
> Reporter: Chris A. Mattmann
> Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
> Fix For: 0.1-incubator
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> Attachments: TIKA-6.Mattmann.091907.patch.txt
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> This patch will contribute a MimeType detection system for Tika, including
> MImeType data structure, and associated content-detection facilities. This
> will be based on Nutch's MimeType system as a baseline, however, I'm open to
> suggestions. Jerome Charron mentioned that he had an implementation of a
> MimeType system based on FreeDesktop.org's system. We should look into this
> as well.
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