Nop :-(
I was thinking about it the other day.
As I already said VerveineJ uses JDT
JDT uses the Eclipse Public License (EPL).
EPL is a free software licence (accepted as such by FSF and OSI)
It is apparently similar to BSD
EPL is not compatible with GPL (for information)
I
understood that:
- We cannot change the licence of JDT inside verveineJ if we distribute source code
- Maybe we could if we distribute only compiled code ?!?
But I still don't know what to do if we distribute our code which uses compiled JDT
code :-(
I see two solutions:
- licence VerveineJ under the EPL, that would probably be the simplest solution
- licence verveinJ under some other free licence as BSD or MIT. We know it cannot be GPL
at least.
I personaly do not really mind one or the other. Unless somebody as something against it,
I would propose to go for the simplest solution (EPL) and be done with it.
nicolas
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De: "Tudor Girba" <tudor.girba(a)gmail.com>
À: "Moose-related development" <moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch>
Envoyé: Mercredi 19 Janvier 2011 23:26:12
Objet: [Moose-dev] Re: verveine licensing
Hi Nicolas,
Any news on this topic?
Cheers,
Doru
On 4 Nov 2010, at 15:36, anquetil.nicolas(a)gmail.com wrote:
> yes, we will ask a license guru.
>
> Because it is not a plugin, but it includes JDT (it is actually
> implemented as a sub-class of one Main class in JDT), and it
> requires
> various Eclipse plugins (as jars) to run
>
> nicolas
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl>
> wrote:
>>
>> If it's a plugin I think its safe to say it's a separate module. If
>> you distribute verveine together with parts of eclipse then it's
>> going to get muddy I think. Better talk to some licensing gurus at
>> INRIA ?
>>
>> On 04 Nov 2010, at 10:22, anquetil.nicolas(a)gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> BTW,
>>>
>>> I was looking at this license stuff yesterday.
>>> Since verveineJ is based on JDT and JDT uses the EPL (Eclipse
>>> Public
>>> License), VerveineJ could be required to use the EPL also ...
>>>
>>> "According to article 1(b) of the EPL, additions to the original
>>> work
>>> may be licensed independently, including under a commercial
>>> license,
>>> provided such additions are "separate modules of software" and do
>>> not
>>> constitute a derivative work.[4][5] Changes and additions which do
>>> constitute a derivative work must be licensed under the same terms
>>> and
>>> conditions of the EPL, which includes the requirement to make
>>> source
>>> code available"
>>> [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License]
>>>
>>> "The EPL is approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and
>>> listed as
>>> a "free software license" by the Free Software Foundation
(FSF)"
>>>
>>>
>>> any comment?
>>>
>>>
>>> nicolas
>>>
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