From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
Cc: <overseers@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Just use google for archive searching?
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212202029001.31115-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0212201434470.98801-100000@dair.pair.com>
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > I'm not sure I understand the political issues involved in using google.
>
> It's an external resource that you don't have the source for
> (with a GNU/free license).
If google have any software patents (that haven't been generally licensed
for at least GPL software) on any of their search algorithms, that would
be another problem.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-20 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-19 21:41 Christopher Faylor
2002-12-19 21:52 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-12-19 23:46 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-12-20 2:27 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-12-20 11:50 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-12-20 12:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-12-20 14:15 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-12-20 21:33 ` Joseph S. Myers [this message]
2002-12-21 9:31 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-21 16:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-12-21 16:34 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-21 20:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-12-21 5:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-12-21 21:29 ` Zack Weinberg
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