[Xapian-discuss] licensing requirements for using the SWIG bindings

Victor Ng crankycoder at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 15:45:37 BST 2007


On 7/24/07, Richard Boulton <richard at lemurconsulting.com> wrote:

> My personal view is that a python wrapper around the Xapian python
> bindings must be licensed under terms compatible with the GPL, or a
> license which puts no additional restrictions in place (and, of course,
> the conditions of the GPL will apply to your python code).

Great - I'll release under GPLv2 then and just make any proprietary
systems integrate over a network interface.

Thanks for clearing this up everyone,
vic

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