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
