Re: [technology-pmc] Expected Dependencies

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne's suggestion was actually more of a question. You should still 
file the CQ. I apologise for not being more explicit.

Wayne

Jeff Johnston wrote:
> 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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> > --
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