Seems we were never allowed to ship out plugin anyways ... at least not with the original GPL.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/using-the-gpl-for-eclipse-plug-ins http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs On 03.09.2014 14:21, Arsenij E Solovjev wrote: > Wasn't the plan to switch to Apache Licence 2.0 anyway? > > On 09/03/2014 02:09 PM, Stefan Rossbach wrote: >> On 03.09.2014 06:26, Holger Schmeisky wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I researched a bit on IDEA's capabilities for something like the SWT >>> Browser and there is no such thing. Looking for Swing browsers: >>> >>> * JavaFX Webview [1], but it seems JavaFX is not fully supported in >>> IDEA [2] >>> * DJProject [3], but it is not developed since 2011 and probably >>> lacks functionality >>> * JxBrowser [4] can do everything we need and looks really good, but >>> is commercial. I asked them for an open source license and they do >>> provide free licenses to open source products, so that should be no >>> problem. Is there a problem with the Saros license when we embed a >>> closed-source 3rd party library? >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins >> >> And now the "fun" begins ... reading that chapter it is even hard to >> decide if you can develop a simple >> Eclipse IDE Plugin using GPL as you are calling Eclipse Code which is >> not licensed under GPL. >>> Regards, >>> Holger >>> >>> >>> [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/webview/jfxpub-webview.htm >>> [2] http://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5507484#5507484 >>> [3] http://djproject.sourceforge.net/ns/ >>> [4] http://www.teamdev.com/jxbrowser >>> >>> Holger Schmeisky; holge...@fu-berlin.de >>> Takustraße 9, Room 008, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin >>> +49 176 64146306 >>> >>> Am 01.09.2014 13:22, schrieb Matthias Bohnstedt: >>>> Thank you very much for the clarification and the advice, this helps me >>>> a lot. And soory for writting german in the mailinglist, I just hit the >>>> “all reply” button and didn’t look twice. My bad. >>>> >>>> Greetings Matthias Bohnstedt >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2014-09-01 10:09 GMT+02:00 Lutz Prechelt <prech...@inf.fu-berlin.de >>>> <mailto:prech...@inf.fu-berlin.de>>: >>>> >>>> Matthias, >>>> >>>> please observe that this is an English-language mailing list. >>>> Björn's German email was a mistake. >>>> >>>> You asked how you should go about understanding the browser-based >>>> GUI approach better. >>>> Here is a suggestion: >>>> >>>> - talk to Damla Durmaz, she is implementing a simple (without input) >>>> case on the Eclipse side right now >>>> >>>> - the browser base component already exists on the Eclipse side >>>> (written by Björn Kahlert) >>>> >>>> - have a closer look at how Björns component works (it builds on >>>> top of Eclipse's SWT browser component but adds a lot of >>>> usage simplification stuff) >>>> >>>> - look at IntelliJ: What does the most suitable IntelliJ (Swing) >>>> browser >>>> component look like? >>>> Here are a few starting points: >>>> >>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/48249/is-there-a-way-to-embed-a-browser-in-java >>>> >>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1454652/embed-browser-in-java-based-desktop-application >>>> >>>> - How would one wrap it such that it becomes fully(!) compatible >>>> to Björns Eclipse component? >>>> If necessary, we will of course modify Björns component to make >>>> this easier. >>>> >>>> - When you understand this, come back and explain it to all of us, >>>> so we can make a decision together how to proceed. >>>> >>>> Second, you said it was your understanding that parts of the >>>> Saros-E GUI were implemented in this browser-based way. >>>> No, this is not the case. >>>> Björn has built a different application where this is true. >>>> But for Saros, we only now start to look into this implementation >>>> style -- so there is plenty of free space for you to act in. >>>> >>>> Lutz Prechelt >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Slashdot TV. >>>> Video for Nerds. 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