Hi Jean and Francois,
Thanks for your responses. Francois, the name of the class is
SQLDirectory; I have a copy of this code and it doesn't contain a
copyright notice.
Jean, thanks for your suggestion. I don't know why the code isn't
checked into the Lucene sandbox; I think the code is a little raw; maybe
the sandbox didn't exist when this class first appeared. I will follow
up with legal-discuss.
Regards,
-Rick
Jean T. Anderson wrote:
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
