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Internet Archive Opens Crawler Code Under LGPL

Posted by Cliff on from the preserving-our-digital-culture dept.

ramakant writes: "It looks like the Internet Archive, which hosts the infamous Wayback Machine has opened its newest in-development crawler code under the LGPL. From the announcement: 'Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project. Heritrix (sometimes spelled heretrix , or misspelled or missaid as heratrix / heritix / heretix / heratix) is an archaic word for inheritess. Since our crawler seeks to collect the digital artifacts of our culture for the benefit of future researchers and generations, this name seemed apt.'"

11 of 186 comments (clear)

  1. Silly rabbit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...Heritrix are for geeks.

  2. Re:Eddie Gentry, Sad Victim of Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this a homage to the WIPO Troll? If so, great one d00d !!!!!!!

  3. Google's IPO by G3ckoG33k · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In fact, one of the greatest Linux user out there may have their IPO hurt by this LGPL, or did I miss something essential here?

  4. No it isn't, ignore the AC. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not goatse.

  5. [OT] Gnome 2 question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OK, I just installe Suse 9 and forced it to use GNOME. But there appears to be NO WAY to edit the GNOME system menus. Am I missing something? Do I need an extra package from Yast?

  6. no articles for 4 hours on a weekday morning? by zontroll · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did Taco die or something?

  7. Re:Cultural artifacts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > (Score:-1, Offtopic)

    Offtopic my ass! Go see the website of the top parent, you moron!

  8. Re:gpl vs. lgpl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No. One is Marxist. The other is Leninist.

  9. YOU FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    failure!

  10. I love you, man! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Congratulations, 100% troll!

    Eddie's suicide note would've just gotten modded down to -1, redundant and wouldn't have been archived for posterity anyway!

  11. Re:Mr peabody! by reub2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent funny.