Baloo Framework - License Exception

[Milian Wolff]

On Wednesday 17 December 2014 12:58:27 Vishesh Handa wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> > I think Jonathan should respond to it. Your argumentation makes sense to
> > me,
> > but the question is whether Baloo is currently derived work of Xapian or
> > not.
> > If there is baloo internal an abstraction allowing to easily swap out
> > Xapian
> > by something different I would say it's not derived work. But if Xapian is
> > deeply wired into Baloo I would say it's derived work.
> 
> I've thought about this some more. Here is the current situation -
> 
> * We have the baloo_file executable which has a lot of Xapian code, which
> is not trivial to replace.
> * We have the Baloo library, which does the searching through Xapian. This
> part is very very well abstracted out. In fact it started out allowing
> other search providers.
> 
> However, Johnathon tells me that just the fact that the Baloo library is
> linking against Xapian is enough to make it GPL.

May I ask the question why Baloo should become a framework in the first place? 
On Windows or Mac, people won't use it anyways, no? Or is it required there 
for e.g. searches in KMail?

Bye
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Milian Wolff
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