Re: [incubation] License compatibility for SISSL and EPL

[Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erwin,

SISSL [1]  has not been previously used or approved for use at Eclipse.  
Our process (defined in Section A of [2] if you are interested) requires 
that new licenses be unanimously approved by the Board.  Based on a 
preliminary review of the license, it looks like the license should be 
okay.  As with all licenses, adherence to the license terms would be 
necessary and a special note should be made of the requirements of 
Section 3.1.

So in other words, if you want to use this SISSL-licensed dependency, we 
can probably make it work. The first step would be to open a CQ to get 
the IP team started on the necessary reviews and license approvals.

Hope that helps.

[1] https://opensource.org/licenses/SISSL
[2] 
http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/2015.12.08.Implementing.the.IP.Policy.pdf


On 2016-06-23 10:58 AM, erwindl0 wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> For Triquetrum we want to include (optional) connectors to grids / 
> distributed resource managers.
>
> This would be done via the DRMAA api [1] and corresponding 
> implementations for different grid implementations.
>
> For DAWN (not its Eclipse project part) I have already repackaged the 
> DRMAA v1 api as an OSGi bundle, and in the meantime we have 
> implementations available for SGE [2] and SLURM [3]. Others could be 
> added when there's an interest. I would like to contribute this work 
> to Triquetrum.
>
> The DRMAA v1 API was originally licensed with the so-called SISSL [4] 
> which has been retired in the meantime.
> The implementations could be brought in with an EPL license.
>
> Questions :
>
> - is the SISSL compatible with an Eclipse product delivery?
>
> - can I include/contribute the API bundle in the Triquetrum repository 
> as sources?
>
> - if yes, can I then maintain the SISSL header/license?
>
> - if not, can it be included as a "works-with" 3rd-party dependency?
>
> thanks!
>
> erwin
>
>
> [1] https://www.drmaa.org/
>
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Grid_Engine and 
> https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE
>
> [3] http://slurm.schedmd.com/
>
> [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Industry_Standards_Source_License
>
>
>
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