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The CLucene Core Library uses a dual license strategy for the source code. +
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These licenses are the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the Apache+
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License (Version 2.0). Users can choose the license they wish to distribute+
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their software under. This means that you do not need to abide by *both*+
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licenses, but rather than you can choose the license which most suits your+
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needs.+
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To rephrase this and to make it perfectly clear:+
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CLucene is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) +
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	*or*+
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the Apache License, Version 2.0+
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However, we are an open source project, and we encourage users to use the LGPL +
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license and participate fully in the free software community. Dual licensing+
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of the CLucene source code provides open and free access to the technology both+
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for the GPL community and for other developers or companies that cannot use the+
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GPL.+
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You can freely modify, extend, and improve the CLucene source code. The only+
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question is whether or not you must provide the source code and contribute+
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modifications to the community. The GNU and Apache licenses allow different+
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ranges of flexibility in this regard, but in the end, regardless of the license+
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used, we highly recommend that you submit any bugs, incompatibilities or+
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added features.+
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Note that this same license does *not* apply to the CLucene Contributions+
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package. You should read the COPYING file in that directory or package for+
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more information.+
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