Contributors to this port of Lucene 4.8.0 to C# were Russell Trupiano and David Wan. All changes are to be submitted under the apache 2.0 license. The snowball stemmers in contrib/Snowball.Net/Snowball.Net/SF/Snowball were developed by Martin Porter and Richard Boulton. The full snowball package is available from http://snowball.tartarus.org/ Apache Lucene.Net is a port of Jakarta Lucene to C#. The port from Java to C# of versions 1.4.0, 1.4.3, 1.9, 1.9.1, 2.0 and 2.1 were done primarily by George Aroush. To contact George Aroush please visit http://www.aroush.net/. Much thanks to George