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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Migrate to EPL 2.0
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Hi Ed
I have migrated OCL, QVTd and QVTo.
I just searched and replaced "Eclipse Public License v1.0" to "Eclipse
Public License v2.0" and "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html" to
"http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html" in ALL files, since I figure
that these strings are sufficiently long that the change can be done
without more than a sampled review (e.g. in a *.genmodel copyright element).
In a discussion on the OCL Review, Wayne was happy that a simple blast
was adequate recognizing that the increased skill and care to correctly
comment/indent the additional EPL DX line was not justified. Wayne was
also happy to leave the obsolete "All rights reserved." and "which
accompanies this distribution" text unchanged.
Even though the license change does not really merit a version change
API-wise, I decided to apply a minor increment anyway. It required some
API filtering to placate.
NB. Use a very recent version of EGIT to make sure you don't need a
coffee break while committing 5000 changes.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 25/06/2018 17:43, Ed Merks wrote:
Hi,
I wonder if anyone started seriously looking at migrating their
project from EPL 1.0 to EPL 2.0?
The FAQ says we should:
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/faq.php#h.60mjudroo8e5
Also, Wayne suggested that there will be pressure applied, e.g.,
perhaps a release train participation requirement.
But the FAQ doesn't say much about how to do this:
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/faq.php#h.tci84nlsqpgw
The instructions are "So, a project can use the new version by simply
updating the file headers and notices." But how simple is that
really? Just changing all the copyright headers in all the files
sounds simple at face value.
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/faq.php#h.q72cnghf29k0
But I have several thousand files!
Is everyone doing this or planning to do this manually, or via various
forms of scripts that we each author ourselves? Of course we'll all
diligently increment every bundle and feature version (by the
appropriate amount) remembering to keep the POMs in sync. And we won't
overlook the copyright element in each feature. Nor will we
overwrite each about.html with the new one (where is the definitive
version of that anyway?), accidentally replacing any Third Party
Content sections. To me it seems like a lot of work, made error prone
by the sheer tedium involved.
Perhaps someone else already has some experience to share?
Regards,
Ed
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