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Re: licensing questions [message #39457 is a reply to message #39424] |
Thu, 21 September 2006 19:01 |
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Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com
Stan,
I am not a lawyer and my advice is not legal advice. Even Eclipse's
lawyers cannot give you legal advice, because that would put them in a
conflict of interest. That being said, I can tell you what I think is
the case...
Stan Rivera wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have a couple of questions regarding license files and/or licensing
> for a branded product, which we will not be charging any fee. I have
> not changed any existing Eclipse plug-ins, merely added my own for
> customization. I will be adding the following to WTP1.5/VTP1.0:
> 1) I created a several new plug-ins: a)
> com.<company>.speechtools - This plug-in holds all my branding stuff.
> b) com.<company>.speechtools.doc - This plug-in holds my
> documentation stuff.
> c) com.<company>.speechtools.vxml.ui - This plug-in has my Snippet
> extension to the SnippetsContribution plug-in which contain custom
> VXML that are only applicable to my company's speech platform.
> 2) I created a feature (com.<company>.speechtools.feature) for these
> plug-ins.
> 3) I created an update site project (com.<company>.speechtools.update)
> so users can update these plug-ins from my website.
>
> 1) Do I need any special license or approval from the Eclipse
> foundation to do what I am doing?
None whatsoever.
> 2) I plan on redistributing this branded version of Eclipse to users
> developing on our speech platform. Am I required to submit any of my
> plug-ins to the VTP (or any Eclipse) repository, they really wouldn't
> be useful to anyone else since they are custom VXML snippets that
> would only work on our speech platform?
No. Your creations are your own to license as you see fit.
> 3) Is my version of Eclipse considered a "commercial" release? Based
> on what I am doing, on there any items in particular in the EPL that
> you can think of that I will need to comply with?
No, I don't think so, other than leaving intact all the copyrights for
all the Eclipse-based plugins without modification.
> 4) For my license files (and about.html files for each plug-in), is
> there a template I need to follow or since this branded version is
> free, can I merely put "This product is free." and put our contact
> information in the license file?
You can do whatever makes you and your lawyers happy in this regard. ;-)
> 5) Do my plug-ins need to be made available for download from some
> repository (or site). I plan on providing some contact information,
> will this suffice in providing the plug-ins to a user?
You can distribute it any way you like.
>
> Thank you for your time!
>
> Stan Rivera
>
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