Rick Hillegas wrote:
There's a piece of code floating around on the internet as part of the
Lucene project. It isn't formally checked into Lucene but the author
says, via email, that he freely gave it away. Does anyone have an
opinion about the legal status of this code? Can it be incorporated into
an apache open source effort?
Thanks,
-Rick
From Derby incubator days .... if the author of that file is willing to
license that particular file to the ASF under the Apache License,
there's no problem. All the author needs to do is post a message to that
effect to the developer list.
However, "freely gave it away" probably isn't sufficient. It needs to be
contributed under the Apache license.
but i.am.not.a.lawyer :-) We have [email protected] for asking
hard questions as needed.
One question: why isn't Lucene committing it to their project repo? Is
there some larger story?
-jean
