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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Open Software without Free Trade.
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Mike,
i fully agree that any
of geopolitical silos is failure. Same to sports: it is a
failure that Russia will not participate in this coming
events. But that is a lesser harm then the murder of people.
It’s a signal.
We the people who want
peaceful and prosperous future must not wait for laws.
Someday there may be no more tomorrow for some (or all) of
us. We need to take action before that happens. Now.
What about changing the
splash screen (bug 575781) to a message (for example Ukraine
flag blue + yellow).
Perhaps. But ultimately that is a project decision.
In the meantime:
https://eclipse-foundation.blog/2022/03/01/the-eclipse-foundation-standwithukraine/
Jörg
Jörg,
Factually, what you are implying about the EPL is incorrect.
Like the GPL the EPL is also a free software license, as is
every other license used by Eclipse Foundation projects. And
the 4 freedoms referenced by Boris fully apply to every
project here. Implementing what you are suggesting would be
close to impossible.
That said, the Eclipse Foundation obeys every law and
regulation that applies to it. For example, we follow all
export controls that apply to us under US and European law. If
the current conflict results in additional regulations we will
apply them as well. That is not the case as of this moment.
The Eclipse Foundation stewards a global community that
embraces technologies from all countries. The free flow of
openly licensed technologies drives innovation in all sectors
of the economy today. For a peaceful and prosperous future we
want to promote the lawful use of free and open source
software from around the world. The creation of geopolitical
silos within the open source community would be failure IMHO.
Mike
Milinkovich
Executive
Director | Eclipse
Foundation AISBL
Twitter:@mmilinkov
Dear Boris,
Note that eclipse is not under GNU but EPL
licensed. Therefore it is *not* public domain.
Yours
Jörg
Dear Jörg,
Note: this is my
personal opinion and does not engage anyone else.
Whatever we think
about the current situation, the 4 freedoms that
define free/libre open source software
absolutely forbid us, or anybody, to do that.
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