Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

On 03.11.2010 11:40, Simone Chiaretta wrote:
> Doesn't look a really friendly approach.... if the ASF provides just the
> brand (which is big in the Linux/Java world, but almost nil in the .NET
> one), the infrastructure (I don't know what this is, but if it is just the
> hosting and the svn and ML, then all the opensource project hosting site
> provide it with no strings attached), and a set of rules/obligations/laws
> that cannot be even summed up in an email, then I don't think its really a
> lot of advantages for the project.

Infrastructure is a rather less important service of ASF. No doubt there
are much better hosting services out there.

ASF is able to provide legal protection. If Lucene should ever be
threatened by patent/copyright/etc. actions, you surely can count
on ASF.

Robert