Brian makes a good point below:
> From: Brian Goetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> [... ] there is an issue with changing the license, and that
> is you have to get permission from all contributors. Under GPL, any
> contributor retains an ownership in the changes they make and
> therefore in the work as a whole. This is part of the GPL's intent;
> once enough people contribute, it becomes effectively impossible to
> closed-source the code because you'd have to get too many permissions.
>
> The number of people who contributed actual code to Lucene is pretty
> small, but technically you should go around and get their permission,
> as they are joint copyright holders.
>
> For the record, I hereby transfer any copyright interest in any
> software I've contributed to the Lucene project to you to or to
> whoever you name as the copyright holding agent for the Lucene
> project.
Thanks, Brian, for pointing this out.
I just went through the CVS commit messages, and identified the following
folks:
briangoetz
cutting
drag0n2
latchkey
otis
Can each of these folks send a message telling whether or not they would
agree to change the license on Lucene to Apache's? Now's your chance to
veto or OK the move to Jakarta.
Doug
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