Use of IKVM was discussed before. Adding this layer (or any other shim) on top of Lucene.NET is extremely unpalatable in the environment in which our products are deployed. For these products, I would have to abandon use of Lucene.NET.
- Neal -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bode...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:37 AM To: lucene-net-...@lucene.apache.org Subject: IKVM (or rather OpenJDK) License Problem Hi, sorry I started this before doing my homework. If we took the IKVM route Lucene.NET's binary distribution could not bundle the OpenJDK derived DLLs. They are licensed as GPL2 + Classpath Exception[1] which is part of the list of explicitly prohibited licenses for ASF distributions[2]. This would mean users had to download the DLL from the IKVM site themselves which sounds pretty inconvient. Stefan [1] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ikvm/index.php?title=License [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x
