Re: [cdt-dev] CPL license question

[Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

You shouldn't be asking people on this list for legal advice :-)

That said, there are commercial products that use the CDT - that's  
basically the whole premise of the Eclipse Foundation and the EPL.

However, I am not a lawyer and can't give you legal advice so you  
should really get proper advice to answer your question. What I can  
say is that the EPL doesn't prevent commercial products since they  
exist.

Alex

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On 27 Jul 2009, at 12:00, Pawel Iwaszko <pmiwaszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you Alex,
>
> I was wrong about CDT using CPL and your post made me realize my  
> mistake.
>
> You could have guessed by now that I'm no license-expert. I would also
> like to know if I can repack some of the CDT jars into my own jar file
> distributed as commercial product? I understand that I have to fulfill
> requirements from points 3 of EPL (regarding object code form), but is
> that all?
>
> Sorry for lame question but I would rather ask someone more
> experienced, than end my days working in stone-pit to pay for my
> misunderstanding of EPL :)
>
> Thanks a lot,
> P.
>
> 2009/7/27 Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > The CPL was transitioned to the EPL ages ago; I'm surprised that  
> > the CDT has
> > CPL at all.
> > http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl2epl/
> > In any case, the CPL was made an 'earlier version' of the EPL, such  
> > that the
> > EPL supersedes the CPL. This means that any CPL product can now
> > automatically become an EPL product and be distributed under the  
> > EPL alone.
> >
> > http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/mike/2009/04/16/one-small-step-towards-reducing-license-proliferation/
> >
> > 4. I have a CPL-licensed project. What do I need to do?
> >
> > You can continue to use it if you want to, although the whole  
> > reason we’re
> > making this happen is because we wanted to provide projects with an  
> > easy
> > option to migrate to the EPL to help reduce license proliferation.
> >
> > There is a very simple path to moving your CPL-licensed project to  
> > the
> > Eclipse Public License. Since the EPL has been denoted as the  
> > successor
> > version of the CPL, you can use a provision in Section 7 (“In addi 
> > tion,
> > after a new version of the Agreement is published, Contributor may  
> > elect to
> > distribute the Program (including its Contributions) under the new
> > version.”) to easily switch to the EPL.
> >
> > On 27 Jul 2009, at 10:41, Pawel Iwaszko wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I’d like to ask about the CPL license for the CDT. Assuming that  
> > I'd
> > use org.eclipse.cdt.core_5.0.2.200902130801.jar from CDT (CPL) and
> > org.eclipse.equinox.common_3.4.0.v20080421-2006.jar from Eclipse  
> > (EPL)
> > can I add these jars into my commercial project ?
> >
> > I don't change anything in these files and I'm not repacking it into
> > my own .jar file.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Pawel Iwaszko
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