This came up as a side topic to my proposal to the Jakarta PMC of bring Lucene to the top-level.
Erik
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From: Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
... here's a license issue for the proposed new PMC to grapple with: apparently Josua Bloch is listed as a contributor. He originally worked for Sun, but now works for Google. According to him, he "did not knowingly contribute any code to Lucene". Nor can I find him participating in either the user or developer mailing lists for Lucene.
The code in question apparently is related to "array utilities", and he apparently did contribute to java.util.Arrays, but that code belongs to Sun and while the source is published, it is neither open source nor compatible with the Apache Software License.
I'm still trying to track down more details, but if anybody can provide any insight into how the contribution was actually made, I would appreciate it.
- Sam Ruby
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