In addition to Ken's suggestions, check out http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/HowToContribute for some help on getting set up. - Steve
From: Ken Krugler [mailto:kkrugler_li...@transpac.com] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:16 AM To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: I wanna contribute a Chinese analyzer to lucene I wrote a Analyzer for apache lucene for analyzing sentences in Chinese language, it's called imdict-chinese-analyzer as it is a subproject of imdict<http://www.imdict.net/>, which is an intelligent online dictionary. The project on google code is here: http://code.google.com/p/imdict-chinese-analyzer/ I took a quick look, but didn't see any code posted there yet. [snip] This Analyzer contains two packages, the source code and the lexical dictionary. I want to publish the source code using Apache license, but the dictionary which is under an ambigus license was not create by me. So, can I only submit the source code to lucene contribution repository, and let the users download the dictionary from the google code site? I believe your code can be a contrib, with a reference to the dictionary. So a first step would be to open an issue in Lucene's Jira (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE), and post your source as a patch. The best way to get the right answer to the legal issue is to post it to the legal-disc...@apache.org list (join it first), as Apache's lawyers can then respond to your specific question. -- Ken -- Ken Krugler +1 530-210-6378
