All,
I would like to inform you that the draft charter for the Science
Top-Level Project was rejected by the Eclipse Foundation Board of
Directors in their face-to-face meeting last week. Their concerns
were entirely related to the licensing section, which went beyond
the norms and precedents set by other project communities at
Eclipse.
However, the Board did approve a revised version of the
Science TLP charter, with a revised licensing section included
below. If you want to proceed with this charter, we could start
the necessary re-structuring soon. Of course, that is entirely
your decision to make. Please advise how you would like to
proceed. I am happy to join a future Science WG call to discuss if
that would be helpful.
Licensing
Approved licenses for projects under Science include:
- The Eclipse Public License (EPL),
- The EPL and the Eclipse Distribution License (EDL, also
known as 3-clause BSD),
- The EPL and the MIT License, and
- The EPL and the Apache License Version 2 (ALv2),
with preference given to the EPL and EDL.
This list may be amended from time to time by the Science PMC
subject to the unanimous approval by the Eclipse Foundation
Board of Directors
