Hi Martin:
We do not expect an Executable to print a
license notice on startup. What we do expect is that if an end user
downloads an Executable from Eclipse or an Eclipse mirror that a copy of the
applicable license(s) would be available to be extracted along with the other
files included in the executable.
Since you have raised specific questions,
I will do my best to investigate in order to provide you with a more detailed
response.
Hope this helps.
Sharon
From:
Oberhuber, Martin [mailto:Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:15
PM
To: Sharon
Corbett
Cc: Barb Cochrane;
Gaff, Doug; jeff@xxxxxxxxx; Burton, Felix; Tarassov, Eugene; DSDP PMC list;
d-russo@xxxxxx
Subject: RE:
DSDP-TM 3.0 About Files in dstore server / agent
packages
Hi
Sharon,
thanks for your
message. I don't quite understand where you find the
requirement of an
Executable printing some license note on startup
--
I cannot find this in
the Guide To Legal Docs. Anyway, my interpretation
of this is as
follows:
1.) Each dstore
server downloadable archive (e.g.
rseserver-3.0rc3-linux.tar)
must include the following
files in its root folder:
-
notice.html
- epl-v10.html
2.) Each JAR file in
the dstore server "should" contain the standard
about.html
Though I don't think this is required since
all dstore JAR archives are in the
same folder, and all
of them are under the same epl-v10.html terms.
3.) When launching
the dstore daemon or server, it should print something
like what we have in the Source file Copyright Headers,
e.g.:
DStore Server (c) 2004, 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying
materials
are made available under the terms of the
Eclipse Public License v1.0
which accompanies this
distribution, and is available at
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
Does this sound
appropriate? - Given that with the Eclipse Runtime
Project
and DSDP, an
increasing amount of Software like daemons, agents or
other
runtime components is
shipped by Eclipse.org which is *not* organized in
a normal Eclipse
product installation, it might make sense to update the
"Guide to Legal Docs"
to include these special cases.
Thanks,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of
Technical Staff, Wind
River
Target Management
Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
From:
Sharon Corbett [mailto:sharon.corbett@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:55
PM
To: Oberhuber,
Martin
Cc: 'Barb
Cochrane'
Subject: RE:
DSDP-TM 3.0 About Files for Review
Hi Martin:
For the
purposes of the Ganymede release, we are reviewing About Files (which
include the licensing information and links) as well as IP Logs only.
You do not need to provide any other required notices at this
time.
I’ve
taken a look at Item #2 below and am attaching a link to the Eclipse Guide to
Legal Documentation which will help you in ensuring the material
available from Eclipse and/or any of our mirrored sites contain the correct
license information, etc. At a minimum, we would expect a user
to be presented with a license and about file when opening an
Executable. Further we would also expect the same notices to be
available in any nested jar file(s) contained within an
Executable.
Thank you for identifying the TCF Incubating component is
not being included as part of Ganymede. We would not expect to see the
About Files for it since it is not shipping.
We
acknowledge that you have included some of the About Files that originate
from reuse of Orbit bundles.
We will be back in touch should be have
any other questions as we review the About
Files.
Thanks,
Sharon
From:
Oberhuber, Martin [mailto:Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:24
PM
To: Janet Campbell; Anne
Jacko
Subject: DSDP-TM 3.0
About Files for Review
Hello Janet & Legal
Team,
attached are the DSDP-TM 3.0
(Ganymede) About Files for Review.
I was unsure about 3
questions:
- Do you
also need the feature's license.html / feature.properties
texts?
- Our
offering includes a Server software which is plain Java and not running
under Eclipse.
The downloadable server archives are named
rseserver*.(tar,zip)
These archives do not currently include any
about.html.
Do we need to add it? What would be the proper place in the
archive for adding it?
FYI, one example download is
rseserver-3.0M7-windows.zip from
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/dsdp/tm/downloads/drops/S-3.0M6-200804112145/rseserver-3.0M6-windows.zip
In
our previous (RSE 2.0) release we also had these server downloads already,
and they were released without an about.html.
- our
TCF component, which is currently in incubation, does not currently show
up on the "Downloads" page, so we do not consider it part of Ganymede.
Should we still send in the about files for it? (They are not included in
the current archive).
Note that attached archvie also
contains some (few) Orbit abouts, which I believe have been submitted
separately by Jeff McAffer.
I'll send in our frozen IP Log
as soon as 2 remaining issues with inconsistency between
the manually
maintained tm-log.csv and the bugzilla "contributed" keyword are
resolved.
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member
of Technical Staff, Wind
River
Target
Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
