Re: [dotNetRDF-Develop] Commercial License?

[Rob V. <rv...@do...>]

Hi Mark

In principle yes a commercial license could be made available though there
may be some practicalities to iron out first.  What exactly would your
client be wanting in a commercial license?  Are we talking paid support
services, LTS for releases or something else?

On the topic of code cleanup if you are able to contribute either the
Fortify report directly or are able to fork the code, address those issues
yourself and send us pull request(s) against the repository that would be
much appreciated.  If you are unable to publicly share the Fortify report
but can share it privately you can always send it me off-list.

You can get a lighter weight core already by using the Client Profile builds
since that strips out the ASP.Net support.  Modularizing out JSON.Net and
HAP is somewhat more tricky, JSON.Net can be done reasonably trivially if
you are happy to sacrifice RDF/JSON and SPARQL Results JSON support.
Removing HAP is harder because while in the standard builds it is used only
for RDFa support in the Silverlight/WIndows Phone builds we use it to
replace some of the System.Web functionality that would otherwise be lacking
(though this may likely be mostly relate to RDFa itself so not be such an
issue).

There are already some plans to modularize out the Web namespace completely
and generally to refactor the library into smaller modules but this is some
ways off, this is at the core of the proposed 2.0 design simplification and
refactoring.  Unfortunately current resource constraints (I.e. the work and
personal commitments of the developers) mean this is not going to be ready
until much later in the year.  Right now we are focused on getting final bug
and stability fixes in for the upcoming 1.0 release and porting and updating
the existing documentation onto the more flexible BitBucket wiki platform.

I'm a little confused as to why we'd need locale support for parse and
format?  Formats for things like numerics, date times, booleans etc are laid
out in the XML Schema Datatypes specifications so locale specific things
like comma vs dot for decimal point don't apply to these.  Also most formats
(bar NTriples/NQuads) use UTF-8 per the specifications anyway so support
international character sets natively.

Can you point me to information on commercial Lucene.Net, maybe I am being
dense but a quick Google search did not turn up anything?

Best Regards,

Rob Vesse

From:  Mark Skiba <Ma...@Sk...>
Reply-To:  dotNetRDF Developer Discussion and Feature Request
<dot...@li...>
Date:  Friday, February 15, 2013 2:20 PM
To:  <dot...@li...>
Subject:  [dotNetRDF-Develop] Commercial License?

> Could a commercial license be made available?  I have an enterprise level
> client that would be more comfortable using your library if you offered a
> commercial license alternative (like Virtuoso does).
> 
> Requirements would be:
> - Code cleanup:   There are about 84  high level priority issues that an
> expensive code analysis tool Fortify has identified (e.g there are a lot of
> cases where null checking should be done).  Note: I could contribute this part
> since I have access to a tool that identifies these issues.
> - Improved modularization - The ability to distribute a light weight core
> without the Sparql and Endpoint functionality and dependencies removed for
> JSON.net and HTML Agility pack
> - International support - currently locale is not controllable and parse and
> format will use  whatever the current locale is.  The application may want
> this to be culturally invariant or using another culture.  The locale should
> be controllable.
> - Ideally, bundle in Lucene.net commercial license with improved international
> support (stop word and stem support for other languages)
> 
> Feel free to contact me directly for more discussions on this topic
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
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