I didn't see this email until now. I replied to the PMC list earlier instead. There are several people who, I think, didn't actually contribute to Lucene on http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/whoweare.html .
# Eugene Gluzberg (drag0n at apache.org) (but I worked with him and remember him fixing some bugs ... one had to do with indexing the very last character in a line of text or some such... # Matt Tucker (mtucker at apache.org) (but I thoughy he contributed a piece of code that had to do with re-trying deletes of one of the index files under Winblows) # Cory Hubert (clhubert at apache.org) # Dave Kor (davekor at apache.org) # Tal Dayan (zapta at apache.org) Otis --- Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone comment on Joshua Bloch's involvement with Lucene's > codebase > and the issue Sam brings up below?? > > This came up as a side topic to my proposal to the Jakarta PMC of > bring > Lucene to the top-level. > > Erik > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]