[Xapian-devel] Learning to rank

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 05:26:45PM +0530, pankaj singhal wrote:
> I have come across these C++ neural-frameworks:
> FANN <http://leenissen.dk/fann/wp/>
> Libann <http://www.nongnu.org/libann/doc/libann_4.html#SEC17>

Did you check the licences?  Libann's site clearly says it's GPL and as
I said in the message you replied to, we'd rather not add more GPL
dependencies.

> I want you to look at the libraries as while incorporating them the need of
> implementing the ML algo. from the scratch reduces.
> http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-devel

FANN says it is LGPL, which is probably OK.  I've no idea if it fulfils
the needs of the project.  Parth may be able to comment more usefully,
but ultimately you'll need to show us in your proposal that the
libraries you're intending to use are suitable, so you'll need to look
into this more deeply yourself.

Cheers,
    Olly