Hi Ralph,

I have put together a minimal commit that uses the standard license
feature: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/bpmn2/org.eclipse.bpmn2/+/168696

Please review and merge.

Jonah

~~~
Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com


On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 17:38, Ralph Soika <ralph.so...@imixs.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> sorry to bother you again, but I think I need you help.
> I overtook the projects:
>
>    -  mdt-bpmn2 <https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.mdt.bpmn2>
>    - "Eclipse Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN2)"
>    -  soa-bepl <https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/soa.bpel> -
>    "Eclipse BPEL Designer"
>
> a view weeks ago. I tried to prepare an updated version for both projects
> fixing some minor technical issues with the code compatibility in
> Eclipse-2020-09.
>
> Now Ed Merks recognized that the license information in the
> feature.xml/features.properties are in a bad shape.
>
> I tried to fix it but - as Ed told me - with no success (Bug 566499
> <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=566499>). I do not think
> that I am in a position to fix this in a way that fulfills all the
> requirements form the Eclipse Foundation. The license text was initial
> created 9 and 10 years ago and was never changed by anybody.
> The initial contribution for mdt-bpmn2 project was form RedHat.
>
> Can some one help me to edit these two files in a way that those files
> meet the requirements form the Eclipse foundation?
> I already have updated the license.html files to the latest Version 2.0 of
> the Eclipse Public License.
> And I thought that it should be fine if I add the text version of this
> license directly into the features.xml file. (initial the license text was
> part of the features.properties file). But as Ed told me this is not
> accepted.
>
> Attached in this e-mail I send you the files, so that someone can take a
> look into it. Again, if this were a purely technical problem, I would like
> to solve it myself. However, as this is a legal problem, I do not dare to
> make any further changes here by myself.
>
>
> Thanks for your help in advance
>
> Best regards
> Ralph
>
>
>
>
> On 01.09.20 23:23, Wayne Beaton wrote:
>
> Right. I forgot about the Eclipse License Feature.
>
> FWIW, I've opened a bug
> <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=566576> to add this to the
> Eclipse Project Handbook.
>
> Should (or do) we have this captured in the simultaneous release
> documentation?
>
> Wayne
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 5:18 PM Matthias Sohn <matthias.s...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 10:52 PM Ralph Soika <ralph.so...@imixs.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> in our projects (soa-bpmn, soa-bepl, mdt-bpmn2) the eclipse license text
>>> seems to be outdated (it is still from the year 2011).
>>>
>>> Can someone please point me to a page or another eclipse project, where
>>> I can see the correct Eclipse license text, so that I can copy the text
>>> into my features.properties and license.html artifacts. Especially the text
>>> for the feature.properties has a curious formatting. So I am looking for a
>>> features.properties file where I can copy this formatting to avoid breaking
>>> the text formatting at some line where I should not do so.
>>>
>> we use the eclipse license feature [1] e.g. here in the egit feature [2].
>> The version of the license feature is defined in the target platform we
>> use [3].
>> In feature.properties we use [4]. If there is a new version of the
>> license we
>> update the version of the license feature we include in the target
>> platform.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/cbi/org.eclipse.license/+/refs/heads/master
>> [2]
>> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/egit/egit/+/refs/heads/master/org.eclipse.egit-feature/feature.xml#8
>> [3]
>> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/egit/egit/+/refs/heads/master/org.eclipse.egit.target/egit-4.16-staging.target#25
>> [4]
>> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/egit/egit/+/refs/heads/master/org.eclipse.egit-feature/feature.properties#22
>>
>>
>> -Matthias
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