Sheldon, David, and the rest of the COSMOS team,
Unfortunately, referencing a required library (dojo) via a CDN rather
than a eclipse.org download does not solve the legal issue. According
to the Eclipse Board of Directors, required dependencies of an Eclipse
project must also go through the legal review process (see
http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_Policy_and_Procedure_for_3rd_Party_Dependencies_Final.pdf).
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that Eclipse frameworks are
usable by the eco-system without constraints -- if an Eclipse project
(under EPL) *requires* another framework (for example GPL) before the
project will function, then effectively the framework can only be
reused under GPL, n'est pas?
Thus the COSMOS project must use the CQ process to gain approval to
reference dojo as an external dependency.
- Bjorn
Harm brought to my attention that
AOL
has made dojo toolkit builds available on the content delivery network
(http://dojotoolkit.org/2007/11/06/dojo-1-0-0-available-aol-cdn)
I've modified the data visualization
code so that the UI references the 1.0.0 build on CDN instead of a
local
copy of the dojo toolkit. I opened bug 211240 to track this solution
(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=211240)
The following are benefits to doing
this:
- no more legal hassle since we are
no longer packaging dojo with our drivers. Instead we are referencing
the builds on CDN
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