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 > > -- > Nicolas Anquetil        Univ. Lille1 / INRIA-equipe RMod > > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev -- Johan Fabry jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile _______________________________________________ Moose-dev mailing list Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev

From reading http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php

De: "Tudor Girba" <tudor.girba(a)gmail.com&gt; À: "Moose-related development" <moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch&gt; 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&gt; > 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 >>> >>> -- >>> Nicolas Anquetil Univ. Lille1 / INRIA-equipe RMod >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Moose-dev mailing list >>> Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch >>> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >> >> -- >> Johan Fabry >> jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry >> PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of >> Chile >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moose-dev mailing list >> Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch >> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >> > > > > -- > Nicolas Anquetil Univ. Lille1 / INRIA-equipe RMod > > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev -- www.tudorgirba.com "Next time you see your life passing by, say 'hi' and get to know her." _______________________________________________ Moose-dev mailing list Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev