Hi Garrett,

Thanks for your support.

No, the port of 1.4.0 and 1.4.3 of dotLucene is from the ground up and has
nothing to do with Lucene.Net 1.3.  The logs on SourceForge.net shows this.

The conflicting question that I have is, Lucene.Net is a better name then
dotLucene.  On SourceForge.Net we picked dotLucene because LuceneDotNet was
taken (the previous developer, back then)  So my choice is to call it
Lucene.Net instead of dotLucene as it is more appropriate.  In addition, the
project, including namespace, is referred to as Lucene.Net -- only the
distribution package is called dotLucene.

Any thoughts on Lucene.Net/dotLucene package name are welcome.

Regards,

-- George 

-----Original Message-----
From: Garrett Rooney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:22 AM
To: Lucene Developers List
Subject: Re: Incubating Lucene.Net

George Aroush wrote:
> Proposal for new project Lucene.Net (aka dotLucene)
> 
> George Aroush -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> (0) rationale
> 
> Lucene.Net (aka dotLucene) is a source code port of Jakarta Lucene 
> from Java to C#.  The port is a one-to-one port of Lucene's high and 
> low level APIs, public and internal APIs, and the underlying 
> algorithms of Lucene as well as the index format.  Every Java file 
> released with Jakarta Lucene is ported to Lucene.Net C#.  In addition, 
> any index file generated with Lucene.Net is 100% cross compatible with 
> Jakarta Lucene and via versa.  Finally, Lucene.Net preserves the 
> look-and-feel of C#'s naming convention for packages, classes, methods and
documentation.
> 
> Lucene.Net 1.4.3 is currently a six-month-old open source project, and 
> is now hosted at SourceForge.net and is backed by its own non-profit 
> organization.  Since Lucene.Net is already based on Jakarta Lucene and 
> thus uses the Apache 2.0 license is therefore an appropriate candidate 
> to be moved to the Apache foundation.
> 
> I anticipate that Lucene.Net will join the recently proposed 
> search.apache.org top-level project, with Lucene and its various ports.

Was the current codebase based on the older Lucene.NET project?  The one
that its authors stopped making available as an open source project? 
The reason I ask is that I recall that version was under an older version of
the Apache License, and I imagine you would require the permission of its
authors to relicense it under the newer license.

Conceptually I have no objection to bringing in this project, I just want to
make sure that the legal bases are covered.

-garrett

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