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| [eclipse.org-committers] About Abouts | 
All,
 
First, apologies for 
the spam. This email is directed to those folks who are involved in leading 
and/or release management for projects that need to know about the "About.html" 
files that we include in plug-in distributions.
 
The IP Advisory 
Committee of the Board of Directors has advised us that we should update the 
content of the About files. The new templates make the licensing clearer for 
redistributors of Eclipse software. We have just posted new templates for these 
files that we would like to have everyone use for the Callisto Release. (E.g. 
please switch to these new templates for your very next 
release.) 
 
The major difference 
is that there are now two templates: 
  - a simple version for 
  all-EPL licensed plug-ins; and
- a longer version for 
  those plug-ins which contain content which is not 
  EPL-licensed.
Now, before panic 
sets in, I'm very happy to let everyone know that Adrian Cho has kindly 
volunteered his time to ensure that all the Callisto projects have the right 
About file format. For any other projects who have a tight deadline coming up 
and could use some help, Adrian has furthered volunteered to help them as well. 
We really appreciate his willingness to help everyone out. His email address is 
above.
 
If anyone has any 
questions, please feel free to call or send me an email.