I suppose this begs the question, why are we including NOTICE.txt in our distribution for *anything* we don't distribute?
~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 7:57 PM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lucene is licensed under the Apache license, just as it says in the > LICENSE file. junit is used for testing Lucene and is not > redistributed with it. Using Lucene in your code does not mean you are > using junit, except in some extremely philosophical sense. EG Lucene > developers may have developed Lucene using Windows on their laptops - > that doesn't mean you need a WIndows license to use Lucene. IANAL, so > you should ask yours - I'm sure someone at Cisco can help you sort > this out? > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:13 AM external-opensource-requests(mailer > list) <external-opensource-reque...@cisco.com.invalid> wrote: > > > > Hello Team > > > > I hope you are doing well!! > > > > This is regarding Lucene component licensing. > > The maven repo link > https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.lucene/lucene-queries/4.10.4 > for lucene-queries 4.10.4 shows Apache 2.0 license associated with the > component. > > Also, the archive (lucene-queries-4.10.4-sources.jar) uploaded has a > LICENSE.txt file which has Apache 2.0 license, but it also includes a > NOTICE.txt file which shows JUnit (junit-4.10) licensed under the Common > Public License v. 1.0. But there is no code associated with Junit included > in the source archive (lucene-queries-4.10.4-sources.jar) file. > > > > In this case, since Common Public License 1.0 is more restrictive > compared to Apache 2.0, for our better understanding, can you clarify to > us on what is the actual Open Source license associated with the Lucene > component? > > > > Mentioning just two of the lucene components in mail as example for your > reference "lucene-backward-codecs 9.3.0" > https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.lucene/lucene-backward-codecs/9.3.0 > > > > Looking forward to your reply. > > > > > > Thanks , > > Open Source Request Team > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
