[Lxr-dev] [ lxr-Bugs-481573 ] requires non-free software for searching

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Bugs item #481573, was opened at 2001-11-13 20:05
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 9
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Assigned to: Arne Georg Gleditsch (argggh)
Summary: requires non-free software for searching

Initial Comment:
On your front page you suggest Glimpse, which is
horridly non-free:
http://www.arco.de/~kj/harvest/glimpse-license-status

This program is GPL, so a user might assume that it's
dependancies are GPL. 

Please provide hooks for Swish-E http://swish-e.org/ or
Swish++
http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/swish/
which are GPL replacements.
If I am in error and this feature allready exists in
lxr, please change the content of http://lxr.linux.no/
to suggest Swish-E or Swish++.


I might note that I caught this as a part of our
department's implementation of Bugzilla (bonsai uses
lxr) which is a mission-critical application for
development here, and now that we know that Glimpse has
*never* been in the public domain (the source we found
had a misleading copyright file) we need to find a
replacement or pay up before the audit rolls around.

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Comment By: Rusty Carruth (rustyc)
Date: 2001-11-14 06:25

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There *is* a version of glimpse (I think around 4.0) which
does 
not require a fee.  This is the version we are using.  A
temporary workaround would be to grab that version and use
it while 
'someone' is fixing lxr to use the free alternative.

(We found that version of glimpse by looking around on the
'net till we found it.)

rc


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Comment By: Malcolm Box (mbox)
Date: 2001-11-14 00:06

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I agree, depending on non-free software for a tool like LXR
is not a good thing.  Moving over to one of the free
alternatives is on the to-do list.

If you wanted to go ahead and provide the hooks for a
replacement, I'd be very happy to incorporate the patch in
the LXR.

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