Re: [CLucene-dev] Re: license (clarification)

[Doug C. <cu...@lu...>]

Max Khesin wrote:
> Doug? What do you think?

I hate dealing licensing issues, but they are important.

This is Ben's decision, as he's written the clucene code.

Some tips:
   - One should be careful about who copyright is assigned to, as only 
that party can change the copyright and license.  So once you assign the 
copyright to the Apache Foundation, or the FSF, you cannot change it.  I 
couldn't find any copyright statements in the CLucene code.  It's 
probably a good idea to add one to each file.
   - If you use GPL or LGPL then folks (like Max) will complain 
endlessly.  I initially selected GPL for Lucene without thinking much 
about it.  Folks complained and I switched to LGPL.  They complained 
less, but still complained.  With the move to Apache the complaints 
stopped.  So, if your interest, like mine, is in developing code that 
folks will just use, then Apache will save you some hassle dealing with 
compaliners.  But, depending on your free software political agenda, 
this may not be acceptable to you.

Doug