Re: [egit-dev] Re: [jgit-dev] Spinning 0.8.3

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris, Shawn,
> 
> We're certainly not against updating the SUA. You may note that the current version is a recent update. However, I certainly agree that it is now too late for Helios, especially because of the work that's gone into bug 306627[1].
> 
> But I just took a quick look at the SUA, and I would like to better understand your views on what enhancements are needed to support the EDL. Perhaps someone could open a bug and explain what you think the issue is? (I don't mean right away necessarily. Actually shipping Helios is way more important for the time being.)
> 
> I do realize that the SUA talks a lot about the EPL as the default license. But that is actually by design and an accurate reflection of Eclipse's projects. There is a lot of legal stuff at Eclipse that is hanging off the phrase "Unless otherwise indicated,..." at the beginning of the "Applicable Licenses" section.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=306627 

Mike, I think our only real issue is that the SUA doesn't mention
the EDL as one of the alternative licences that content might be
covered under.  It lists out other licenses like Apache 2.0, but
it fails to list the foundation's own other license, the EDL.  :-)

Its a minor change, but one we would like to see considered for
the Helios+1 release train, if possible.


 
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Aniszczyk
> > Sent: June-07-10 8:28 PM
> > To: Shawn O. Pearce
> > Cc: EGit developer discussion; JGit Developers list
> > Subject: Re: [egit-dev] Re: [jgit-dev] Spinning 0.8.3
> > 
> > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > *sigh* I know.  The foundation wants us to use the standard EPL
> > > SUA, even though its language is horribly incorrect for JGit.
> > > We could try to talk them into a modified SUA for JGit, but that
> > > will take weeks.  So we'll miss the Helios train.  Or should have
> > > started that conversation weeks ago.
> > 
> > I'll bring up modifying the SULA at the next Eclipse board meeting,
> > for now we can't change it.
> > 
> > The important thing is to get the about.html included in
> > org.eclipse.jgit when built.
> > 
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Chris Aniszczyk
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Shawn.