Re: [Virtuoso-users] Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries

2007-03-14 Thread Emiliano Heyns
On 3/14/07, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > OK, clear. The reason I thought the earlier case applied to Virtuoso > was because > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowRequireFee > says "The GPL is a free software license, and therefore it permits > people to use and even r

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries

2007-03-14 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Emiliano Heyns wrote: On 3/14/07, *Ted Thibodeau Jr* > wrote: Hi, Emile -- This is a common misconception. Something being under GPL does not necessarily mean there are no costs or charges associated with its deployment or use. The follow

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries

2007-03-14 Thread Emiliano Heyns
On 3/14/07, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote: Hi, Emile -- This is a common misconception. Something being under GPL does not necessarily mean there are no costs or charges associated with its deployment or use. The following comes from the GPL itself (Version 2, the only version which applies to Vir

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries

2007-03-14 Thread Ted Thibodeau Jr
Hi, Emile -- ** On 3/14/07, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote: >> (It should also be noted that a commercial enterprise of the sort >> described requires a commercial license anyway, whether using the >> VOS or proprietary distribution...) * Emiliano Heyns [2007/03/14 07:16 AM +0100] wrote: At 09:38 AM -04

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries

2007-03-14 Thread Jukka Villstedt
First of all thank you for such fast replies Ted and Kingsley! On 3/14/07, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote: It is perhaps worth noting that multiple data spaces can be hosted within a single Virtuoso instance, thus removing the need for the federation on the level you describe here. Each shop-owner c

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries

2007-03-13 Thread Emiliano Heyns
On 3/14/07, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote: Hi, Jukka -- (It should also be noted that a commercial enterprise of the sort described requires a commercial license anyway, whether using the VOS or proprietary distribution...) Just curious, but why would this be so? If the application being developed

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries

2007-03-13 Thread Ted Thibodeau Jr
Hi, Jukka -- ** Jukka Villstedt [2007/03/13 11:52 PM +0200] wrote: >> I'm wondering if Virtuoso Open Source Edition supports distributed >> SPARQL queries over many Virtuoso databases. I've understood that >> virtual databases are included only in the commercial edition. >> >> I would like to make

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries

2007-03-13 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Jukka Villstedt wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if Virtuoso Open Source Edition supports distributed SPARQL queries over many Virtuoso databases. I've understood that virtual databases are included only in the commercial edition. I would like to make it easy to build personal data spaces and to set

[Virtuoso-users] Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries

2007-03-13 Thread Jukka Villstedt
Hi, I'm wondering if Virtuoso Open Source Edition supports distributed SPARQL queries over many Virtuoso databases. I've understood that virtual databases are included only in the commercial edition. I would like to make it easy to build personal data spaces and to set up communities by connecti