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RE: [eclipse-dev] GPL'd Plug-ins
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Title: RE: [eclipse-dev] GPL'd Plug-ins
I thought I
had seen something related to this at one point:
> I've noticed that there are eclipse plug-ins available
that
> are licensed under the GPL (but not from
eclipse.org). I was
> just wondered if, given
the incompatibility between the GPL
> and CPL,
GPL'd plug-ins are acceptable.
>
> It seems to me that the when a GPL'd plug-in is
loaded, the
> GPL would consume the framework
unless the plug-in runs as a
> separate program and
talks to the framework through some kind
> of IPC
scheme (I'm not familiar with the details of how
>
plug-ins are loaded in eclipse, I really doubt it works that way).
>
> Can anyone comment on
whether or not GPL'd (not LGPL'd)
> plug-ins are ok
form a licensing perspective?
IANAL; IBM's lawyers have created the following faq:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-cplfaq.html
From the faq, it appears that publishing Eclipse plug-ins
under the GPL is probably problematic (see point #12).
Dave