Re: licensing issues in clucene

2006-05-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On 4/30/06, Cliff Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: being able to dual-license their contributions to GPL and Apache. I believe there was a fairly strong consensus against it, including from one or more ASF board members. Others may remember the details better. We

Re: licensing issues in clucene

2006-05-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 4/30/06, Cliff Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: being able to dual-license their contributions to GPL and Apache. I believe there was a fairly strong consensus against it, including from one or more ASF board members. Others may remember the details better. We have one license on work th

Re: licensing issues in clucene

2006-04-30 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 4/29/06, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 02:57, Ben van Klinken wrote: > For historical reasons, CLucene is dual licensed as Apache 2.0 license > or LGPL. As I understand it, the apache license is currently is not > compatible with GPL projects and therefore

Re: licensing issues in clucene

2006-04-29 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 29 April 2006 02:57, Ben van Klinken wrote: > For historical reasons, CLucene is dual licensed as Apache 2.0 license > or LGPL. As I understand it, the apache license is currently is not > compatible with GPL projects and therefore GPL projects can't > distribute apache licensed softwar

RE: licensing issues in clucene

2006-04-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
You might want to contact the Lucene project (Lucene long ago left Jakarta). Also, see: http://incubator.apache.org/lucene4c/. > As I understand it, the apache license is currently is not > compatible with GPL projects and therefore GPL projects can't > distribute apache licensed software Opinion

licensing issues in clucene

2006-04-29 Thread Ben van Klinken
Hi, I am the lead developer for CLucene, an open source search engine based on Apache Lucene. We recently fixed some of our licensing issues we were having (code that wasn't license-incompatible) and are trying comply properly with all our licensing. We have been invited to apply for incubation a