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Looks really interesting. Could imagine someone can build a open source Notion alternative with this and offer the Recfiles as export option, would enable all types of crazy use cases. Add a read/write API and now you can have bots acting on your knowledge base. Basically MediaWiki but with a long-standing underlying format and compatibility with some unix tools already.

Does anyone have any more resources (besides the manual of course [https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual ]) they can recommend about Recutils and Recfiles?

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I couldn't find much more, which is why I decided to write this intro. I may do a video exploration of the various tools and features as well. It seems like others are as excited by this as I am.

Earlier this weekend I was doing experimental performance testing of an idea I have for a wiki solution[0].

This, or SQLite could be really useful to embed data into pages.

[0]: yeah, I've had to dig beneath the surface of Confluence lately and Confluence has this weird property of immediately making me motivated to try writing a decent wiki

FWIW, if you want a ready-made solution, wiki.js might be worth looking in to.

Looks really nice except agpl license which I used to think meant that any integration towards any existing solution.

At this point I've recently read someone from FSF(?) saying this is only MongoDB and others misinterpretation so at this point I am just utterly confused.

Also, when somebody uses AGPL that usually means: we found the scariest license we could find while still calling it open source, but, we have a commercial license to sell you.

However I couldn't find any licensing option. Does this mean it isn't just a way to sell commercial licenses?

I'm completely honest here. I really don't get it, but then again it took a while before I really understood the GPL as well so I'm ready to be enlightened :-)

TBH I hadn’t noticed that it’s licensed under the AGPL. I haven’t studied that license closely but yeah, I guess for many companies it’s considered a liability.

Thanks anyway!

I went ahead to study the FSF FAQ but they don't really answer it completely as far as I can see. The clear cut answers are:

- if you combine your program with an AGPL program then your program has to become AGPL as well, just like the GPL.

- if you use an AGPL program unmodified it doesn't seem like you have to distribute kt to users who use it over the network

But as far as I can see the FAQ doesn't say what happens if the AGPL program reaches out to other applications to get data. For some reason I always though anything that was touched by the AGPL program, either over the network or otherwise would have to become AGPL.

If that isn't the case - and there is more and more to suggest that, then I think FSF should point that out clearly.

Notion is a free-form information space, Recutils is more about a collection of entries with a specific format. If anything Recutils could be the import/export format of Airtable instead.

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