Date: 2004-12-20T12:04:29 Editor: DougCutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wiki: Incubator Wiki Page: NutchProposal URL: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NutchProposal
no comment Change Log: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ DougCutting -- cutting at apache dot org ---- -'''(0) rationale''' +'''(0) rationale''' + +Nutch is web search software. It builds on the Apache Lucene search library, adding a crawler, web database (including full link graph), plugins for various document formats, user interface, etc. It is currently used by sites such as http://search.creativecommons.org/, http://library.cornell.edu/, and the Internet Archive. + +Nutch is a two-year-old open source project, currently hosted at Sourceforge and backed by it's own non-profit organization. The non-profit was founded in order to assign copyright, so that we could retain the right to change the license. We have now determined that the Apache license is the appropriate license for Nutch and no longer require the overhead of an independent non-profit organization. Nutch's [ http://www.nutch.org/docs/en/org.html board of directors ] and its developers have both been polled and support a move to the Apache foundation. '''(0.1) criteria''' --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
