Re: [technology-pmc] Expected Dependencies

[Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bjorn,

I already have a CQ (2669).  Wayne Beaton noticed the documentation 
stuff in September and asked if I could remove the GPL documentation 
from the check-in and instead link to web pages.  This is exactly what I 
have done, but I guess I didn't explicitly state that I linked to 
external web-pages as suggested.

Do I need to append to the CQ to make it clear I took Wayne's suggestion 
or is this issue already covered?

-- Jeff Johnston

Bjorn Freeman-Benson wrote:
> Jeff,
> The first thing you need to do is to file a IPzilla CQ (Contribution 
> Questionnaire) explaining the situation. That will trigger the PMC and 
> the Foundation Legal staff to review the situation. Due to the Eclipse 
> Foundation's Board-defined IP Policy, this situation (external GFDL 
> licensed helpd files) may or may not be allowed - I don't know. But I 
> do know you need to start with a CQ.
>
> Thanks,
> Bjorn
>
> Jeff Johnston wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My name is Jeff Johnston and I work on the Linux Distributions 
> > project at eclipse.org.  I  wanted to make it known to the Technology 
> > PMC that the following linux-tools plugins make use of help 
> > documentation not hosted on eclipse.org:
> >
> > org.eclipse.linuxtools.cdt.autotools
> > org.eclipse.linuxtools.cdt.autotools-docs
> > org.eclipse.linuxtools.cdt.libhover.library-docs
> > org.eclipse.linuxtools.cdt.libhover.glibc
> > org.eclipse.linuxtools.cdt.libhover.newlib
> >
> > The documentation files are accessed via http similar to how Java API 
> > documentation may come from sun.com, for example.  The files accessed 
> > are public help documentation and hover help documentation.  The 
> > hover help documentation files are simply transformed help 
> > documentation files.  The files cannot be hosted on eclipse.org due 
> > to the fact that they are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation 
> > License.  If the files are inaccessible, the plugins carry on without 
> > warnings or errors.
> >
> > Let me know if any further information is required.
> >
> > -- Jeff Johnston
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