Re: [cdt-dev] CPL license question

[Pawel Iwaszko <pmiwaszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, now I understand more than I did before my first post :) I really
appreciate your help.

Have a nice day,
P.


2009/7/27 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
>
> Sent from my (new) iPhone
>
> 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 addition,
>>> 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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