(lucenenet) branch master updated: Add CITATION file to help users correctly cite the Lucene.NET software (#1330)

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     new b38edb726 Add CITATION file to help users correctly cite the Lucene.NET software (#1330)
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commit b38edb72616fa16e10c83649bd775178bcc269c5
Author: John Bampton <jb...@users.noreply.github.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jun 11 16:28:40 2026 +1000

    Add CITATION file to help users correctly cite the Lucene.NET software (#1330)
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 CITATION.cff | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)

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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: If you use this software, please cite it as below.
+title: Apache Lucene.NET
+type: software
+authors:
+  - name: Apache Lucene.NET Contributors
+repository-code: https://github.com/apache/lucenenet
+url: https://lucenenet.apache.org
+license: Apache-2.0
+abstract: "Apache Lucene.NET is a C# port of the Apache Lucene search library targeting .NET developers. It provides a powerful indexing and search engine library with support for text analysis, relevance ranking, query processing, and scalable full-text search across large collections of documents."
+keywords:
+  - search
+  - information retrieval
+  - full-text search
+  - text analysis
+  - query processing
+  - inverted index
+  - document retrieval
+  - relevance ranking
+  - indexing
+  - tokenization
+  - stemming
+  - faceted search
+  - linguistic analysis
+  - phonetic search
+  - fuzzy search
+  - spatial search