| jackwind li + swt + licenses [message #208534] |
Wed, 02 May 2007 07:53  |
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Originally posted by: go.away.com
hi-
jackwind li guojie copyrighted some code in a very
good swt book. i made alterations and added new
code to a few classes in the book and incorporated
them into my program.
i cant find a mention of any software license the
code is under. i want to release the program i worked
on for free without copyrighting it. i have to find
out first if i can release that code. i recently learned i have
to respect jackwind's copyright.
does anyone know how i could find out what
license if any the code is under?
one class is named bugtrackerjface for i.e.
i dont know quite how to handle it as it is kind
of derived work now woven into a bigger program
but i am not actually applying for a copyright
for the derived code i did myself. i just want to
share this program with people who visit
my personal web site.
another quick question is on some plug-in jars
that start like org.eclipse.jface and
org.eclipse.jface.text -- what license are all of
those released under? is it the same license
for anything that starts org.eclipse.xx pattern?
i found that some other jars that don't start
with that pattern are under the lgpl and i am
making a list of the jars in my program and
what license they are under.
thanks for any help. people are teaching me and
i am learning the proper way to distribute
software even though my goal on this program is
not to make money .
thanks for any assistance,
jim
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| Re: jackwind li + swt + licenses [message #208562 is a reply to message #208534] |
Wed, 02 May 2007 11:29  |
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Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com
Jim,
Probably you need to contact the author. All the jars shipped at
Eclipse should be under Eclipse Public License or a license compatible
with that, such as Apache Public License. LGPL is not compatible with
EPL at this time, so there should be no LGPL jars being shipped from
Eclipse (although there might be one exception to do with GTK+, but I
don't know the details). Generally EPL does not require you make your
redistribution be EPL. All it requires is that any actual changes you
make to the EPL base code are still EPL and you must make the source
changes publicly available. Other than that, you can redistribute under
any license, including a commercial one. Of course I'm not a laywer so
my advice is not legal advice.
3rdshiftcoder wrote:
> hi-
>
> jackwind li guojie copyrighted some code in a very
> good swt book. i made alterations and added new
> code to a few classes in the book and incorporated
> them into my program.
> i cant find a mention of any software license the
> code is under. i want to release the program i worked
> on for free without copyrighting it. i have to find
> out first if i can release that code. i recently learned i have
> to respect jackwind's copyright.
> does anyone know how i could find out what
> license if any the code is under?
> one class is named bugtrackerjface for i.e.
> i dont know quite how to handle it as it is kind
> of derived work now woven into a bigger program
> but i am not actually applying for a copyright
> for the derived code i did myself. i just want to
> share this program with people who visit
> my personal web site.
>
> another quick question is on some plug-in jars
> that start like org.eclipse.jface and
> org.eclipse.jface.text -- what license are all of
> those released under? is it the same license
> for anything that starts org.eclipse.xx pattern?
> i found that some other jars that don't start
> with that pattern are under the lgpl and i am
> making a list of the jars in my program and
> what license they are under.
>
> thanks for any help. people are teaching me and
> i am learning the proper way to distribute
> software even though my goal on this program is
> not to make money .
>
> thanks for any assistance,
> jim
>
>
>
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| Re: jackwind li + swt + licenses [message #208647 is a reply to message #208562] |
Wed, 02 May 2007 18:12 |
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Originally posted by: go.away.com
thanks Ed. that is really cool advice.
i didnt make any EPL base code changes.
i will go find Jackwind. there is a wrox forum
for the book i can possibly contact him at.
thanks again,
jim
"Ed Merks" <merks@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:f19sn4$sb7$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Jim,
>
> Probably you need to contact the author. All the jars shipped at Eclipse
> should be under Eclipse Public License or a license compatible with that,
> such as Apache Public License. LGPL is not compatible with EPL at this
> time, so there should be no LGPL jars being shipped from Eclipse (although
> there might be one exception to do with GTK+, but I don't know the
> details). Generally EPL does not require you make your redistribution be
> EPL. All it requires is that any actual changes you make to the EPL base
> code are still EPL and you must make the source changes publicly
> available. Other than that, you can redistribute under any license,
> including a commercial one. Of course I'm not a laywer so my advice is
> not legal advice.
>
>
> 3rdshiftcoder wrote:
>> hi-
>>
>> jackwind li guojie copyrighted some code in a very
>> good swt book. i made alterations and added new
>> code to a few classes in the book and incorporated
>> them into my program.
>> i cant find a mention of any software license the
>> code is under. i want to release the program i worked
>> on for free without copyrighting it. i have to find
>> out first if i can release that code. i recently learned i have
>> to respect jackwind's copyright.
>> does anyone know how i could find out what
>> license if any the code is under?
>> one class is named bugtrackerjface for i.e.
>> i dont know quite how to handle it as it is kind
>> of derived work now woven into a bigger program
>> but i am not actually applying for a copyright
>> for the derived code i did myself. i just want to
>> share this program with people who visit
>> my personal web site.
>>
>> another quick question is on some plug-in jars
>> that start like org.eclipse.jface and
>> org.eclipse.jface.text -- what license are all of
>> those released under? is it the same license
>> for anything that starts org.eclipse.xx pattern?
>> i found that some other jars that don't start
>> with that pattern are under the lgpl and i am
>> making a list of the jars in my program and
>> what license they are under.
>>
>> thanks for any help. people are teaching me and
>> i am learning the proper way to distribute
>> software even though my goal on this program is
>> not to make money .
>>
>> thanks for any assistance,
>> jim
>>
>>
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