It would also have drastic affects on other people using Lucene for commercial and OSS projects.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >
