Hi Doug, > My belief is that we should disband the Nutch non-profit organization > and assign the copyright for Nutch software to the Apache Foundation, > switching Nutch's license to Apache version 2.0. Are there any > developers who object to this?
Does this mean make nutch a apache project? Apache license is a good one and people know it. This provide a level of trust that can be useful for the project. Move nutch to apache will solve a set of technical issues we have with sourceforge and will help to promote nutch as well. However apache is already a very BIG Organisation and I personal like small units and organisations. I think as far nutch ist open source people will manipulate (in the user context may improve) ranking. From my point of view to reach the goal of a 'free search' it is not a question of the license but a question of how many good alternative search engines you have. So to get nutch stabile, easy to use and install it in very large environments is from my point of view more important then have LGPL or Apache. At least i think it would be important that people will be able to run commercial services with nutch since this will help to get more developers involved. The only final solution to have a free search - will be a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ala [EMAIL PROTECTED] or napster but as we all know, we can't solve the technical problems yet. Just my 2 cents. Greetings. Stefan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Nutch-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-developers
