README.txt

Welcome to Glimmer!

Glimmer uses several 3rd party open source libraries and tools. This file summarizes the tools used, their purpose, and the licenses under which they're released. This file also gives a basic introduction to building and using Glimmer.

Except as specifically stated below, the 3rd party software packages are not distributed as part of this project, but instead are separately downloaded from the respective provider.

• Hadoop version 0.23.x (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) Libs for executing code on a Hadoop map reduce cluster. http://hadoop.apache.org/

• NxParser version 1.2.x (BSD - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php) http://code.google.com/p/nxparser/

• MG4j version 5.1 (GNU Lesser General Public License - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) http://mg4j.dsi.unimi.it/

• Java servlet-api version 2.5 (Oracle Binary Code License - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/index.html) http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr154/index.html

• Fastutil version 6.4.4 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) Extends the Java‚Ñ¢ Collections Framework by providing type-specific maps, sets, lists and queues with a small memory footprint and fast access and insertion http://fastutil.di.unimi.it/

• DSI Utils version 2.0.6 (GNU Lesser General Public License - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) The DSI utilities are a mish mash of classes accumulated during the last ten years in projects developed at the DSI http://dsiutils.dsi.unimi.it/

• Sux4j version 3.0.4 (GNU Lesser General Public License - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) Implementation of basic succinct data strucures http://sux.di.unimi.it/

• WebGraph version 3.0.7 (GNU General Public License - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) WebGraph is a framework for graph compression aimed at studying web graphs http://webgraph.di.unimi.it/

• Colt version 1.2.0 (Colt License - http://acs.lbl.gov/software/colt/license.html) Colt provides a set of Open Source Libraries for High Performance Scientific and Technical Computing in Java http://acs.lbl.gov/software/colt/

• JSAP version 2.1 (JSAP License - http://www.martiansoftware.com/jsap/license.html) Java command line argument processor. http://www.martiansoftware.com/jsap/

• Apache Log4j version 1.2.16 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) Logging framework http://logging.apache.org/log4j/

• Apache Commons IO version 2.2 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) Commons IO is a library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality. http://commons.apache.org/io/

• Apache Commons Lang version 2.6 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) Lang provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API http://commons.apache.org/lang/

• Apache Commons Collections version 3.2.1 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) Commons-Collections seek to build upon the JDK classes by providing new interfaces, implementations and utilities http://commons.apache.org/collections/

• Apache Commons Configuration version 1.8 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) The Commons Configuration software library provides a generic configuration interface which enables a Java application to read configuration data from a variety of sources. http://commons.apache.org/configuration/

• Apache Commons Digester version 2.1 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) XML -> Java object mapping http://commons.apache.org/digester/

• Apache Commons httpclient version 3.1 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) A java HTTP client. http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/

• Tika version 1.1 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) The Apache Tika‚Ñ¢ toolkit detects and extracts metadata and structured text content from various documents... http://tika.apache.org/

• Java Mail version 1.4.5 (Oracle Binary Code License - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/index.html) Java mail implementation. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javamail/index.html

• Guava version 11.0.2 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) Collection of several of Google's core libraries. http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/

• Gson version 2.1 (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/

• OWL API version 3.3 (GNU Lesser General Public License - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) The OWL API is a Java API and reference implmentation for creating, manipulating and serialising OWL Ontologies. http://owlapi.sourceforge.net/

• jMock version 2.5.1 (jMock Project License - http://www.jmock.org/license.html) Mocks java objects for testing. http://www.jmock.org/

• Spring Framework version 3.1.1.RELEASE (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) A comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications http://www.springsource.org/spring-framework#documentation

• Validation-api version 1.0.0.GA (Apache License 2 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) Jboss's implementation of Java validation JSR-303. http://www.hibernate.org/subprojects/validator.html

• XStream version 1.4.2 (a BSD license - http://xstream.codehaus.org/license.html) A simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. http://xstream.codehaus.org/

The following 3rd Party code is included as part of this Project:

• The classes com.yahoo.glimmer.indexing.SimpleCompressedDocumentCollectionBuilder & com.yahoo.glimmer.indexing.SimpleCompressedDocumentCollection are modified version of the MG4J classes of the same name. See the above for MG4J's licensing policy.