I was thinking the same. As a matter of fact, I'm talking to Pasha (Lucene.Net) to see if he/they would be willing to give away the source code. Somebody else would have to look into licenses, see whether SF has the right to give the project to somebody else, etc.
I'd like to help with this, but I am too busy to push this until mid-November. Otis --- Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yussef Alkhamrichi wrote: > > 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. > > Perhaps it is time to start bringing the various Lucene ports under > the > Apache umbrella. If we made Lucene a top-level Apache project rather > > than a Jakarta sub-project, at lucene.apache.org rather than > jakarta.apache.org/lucene, then we could have sub-projects for each > implementation (Java, C++, C#, Perl, etc.). The primary obstacle to > this is a lack of volunteers who are willing to do the legwork of > re-assembling the website, cvs, mailing lists, etc. I am currently > overbooked and cannot take this on. > > This would prevent this sort of thing in the future: an Apache > sub-project cannot be unilaterally closed. > > Doug > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
