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

Sun, 24 October 2010 18:24

Eclipse User

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

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

Mon, 25 October 2010 06:05

Eclipse User

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

2) LGPL
3) MIT
5) EPL

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

Mon, 25 October 2010 07:18

Eclipse User

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

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

Mon, 25 October 2010 15:26

Eclipse User

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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