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License of an Eclipse RCP application? [message #634890]

Sun, 24 October 2010 22:24

Nikolay

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Registered: October 2010
Location: Germany

Junior Member

Hello,

which licenses are allowed for an Eclipse RCP application?

Concretely, are these licenses allowed?:

1) GPL (v2 and v3)
2) LGPL
3) MIT
4) Apache 2.0
5) EPL

Greetings,
Nikolay

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Re: License of an Eclipse RCP application? [message #634973 is a reply to message #634890]

Mon, 25 October 2010 10:05

moley harey

Messages: 23
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello I guess the only ones you can use are "soft-copylet" ones like:

2) LGPL
3) MIT
5) EPL

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Re: License of an Eclipse RCP application? [message #634999 is a reply to message #634890]

Mon, 25 October 2010 11:18

Mickael Istria

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

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Hi.

You are free use any license that allows you to bind your code to EPL code. EPL is a permissive license, you can ship your product in almost whatever license you want. The difficulty is to qualify whether what you are doing in "derivative work" or not.
See http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php

Le 25/10/2010 00:24, Nikolay a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> which licenses are allowed for an Eclipse RCP application?
>
> Concretely, are these licenses allowed?:
>
> 1) GPL (v2 and v3)
> 2) LGPL
> 3) MIT
> 4) Apache 2.0
> 5) EPL
>
> Greetings,
> Nikolay
>

--
Mickael Istria -- BonitaSoft S.A.
http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/BPM_download.php

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Re: License of an Eclipse RCP application? [message #635158 is a reply to message #634890]

Mon, 25 October 2010 19:26

Nikolay

Messages: 2
Registered: October 2010
Location: Germany

Junior Member

Hi Michael und Moley,

thank you for the short and good answers! It seems that EPL is most suitable for an Eclipse RCP application.

Possibly it could be dual-licensed with EPL and LGPL, but is not typical for the Eclipse and Apache projects themselves:
http://logback.qos.ch/license.html
http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/mike/2010/04/06/epl-gpl-comment ary/#comment-281

Greetings,
Nikolay Georgiev

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