Re: [Tracker] tracker copyright query ...

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 18:12 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Jamie,

Hi michael,

>       I was recently reading parts of both tracker & beagle, for various
> reasons. As part of that I was looking at the io priority code:
>
>       tracker/src/trackerd/tracker-ioprio.c:
>
>       it bears the legend:
>
> /* Tracker - indexer and metadata database engine
>  * Copyright (C) 2006, Mr Jamie McCracken (jamiemcc gnome org)
>  *
>  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
>       ...
>
>       etc.
>
>       However reading the code, I was interested to note that it bears an
> uncanny similarity to:
>
>       beagle/glue/ioprio-glue.c
>
>       which bears the legend:
>
> /*
>  * ioprio-glue.c - I/O priority wrappers for the big dog
>  *
>  * Robert Love        <rml novell com>
>  *
>  * Copyright (C) 2005 Novell, Inc.
> ..
>  * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
>  * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>
>
>       I was wondering - are these derived from a 3rd public domain source ?
> or did you independently arrive at the same code ? or is this a simple
> ommission ? or did Robert Love rip you off ? ;-)

No I ripped the code from beagle :)

It was an honest omission so i will update the copyright



>       Also; looking at this space - it seems to me that one of the places
> where beagle and tracker should be working together is on a common
> 'libbeagle' (suitably renamed I guess 'libsearch' ?) and common set of
> hooks for things like Firefox that would make the choice of underlying
> search technology moot (at least for the application). Does that make
> sense ? and/or would you help out with that ?

thats what Xesam is for - http://xesam.org/main

We will be implementing support for it over xmas - I think beagle
already has support for most of it

later iterations of xesam will cover common extractors and crawlers

there is an xesam ml on freedesktop and irc on #xesam on freenode

jamie