Hm, hm, hm, hm. And we just copy-edited the Lucene Ports chapter, where we cover Lucene.Net. Now what? :)
I wonder if this is related to Microsoft's purchase of Lookout, which uses Lucene.Net. I also wonder whether the licence allows this... Otis --- Yussef Alkhamrichi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Doug, > > I've noticed the same odd thing, me and a couple of guys were heaving > a > discussion in de Open Discussion of Lucene.NET to re-establish a > decent up > to date .NET port of Lucene when suddenly all plugs were pulled out > (no > files released any more, no open discussion, etc.) > > Last night I've send a mail to all people involved (4 in total, > George > -http://www.aroush.net-, Mohammad -http://mohammad.abdulfatah.net/-, > Mansur > and me). The idea is to get a Lucene port in sync with the Java > version and > get a decent community support behind (not restricting the people > that can > co-develop to a mere 1 or 2 in-crowd). An open source product is only > as > good as its community I guess. > > I find it a strange move from de Lucene.NET guys > (http://www.lucenedotnet.com), ofcourse they have put in a lot of > effort to > port the thing and it's quite possible to earn money with it. But > were did > they get the code from in the first place ?!?! (Under the Apache > License). > > The main target for the .NET porters is now to get a SourceForge > workspace > to continue the .NET port of Lucene. Mohammed is contacting the > developers > of NLucene and see if we can work something out together to use their > space > and name for the real open source .NET brother (or sister:) of the > Java > Lucene version. > > We hope we can tell you more shortly. Keep up the great work you all > have > done with Lucene so far! > > Yussef > > >From: Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: "Lucene Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Lucene Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: lucene.net no more? > >Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:21:29 -0700 > > > >Does anyone know more about this? > > > >http://mohammad.abdulfatah.net/mohammad/archives/2004/09/the_mysterious.php > > > >Doug > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail en Messenger on the move > http://www.msn.nl/communicatie/smsdiensten/hotmailsmsv2/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
