On 06/05/07, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 0, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
scribbled:
> We do. We only use the Lucene search because
someone ported it from
> Java to Mono.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Java at
least open source these days? And Mono was uncertain with regard to Microsoft's
patents, last I heard...
Java not yet, and Mono not that they've actually told anyone rather
than just FUDding. Also, quite a lot of software patents were suddenly
put on shaky ground by the US Supreme Court.
But yeah, when enough of Java is freed, I suspect going back to the
upstream version of Lucene will be considered.
- d.