Hi Yolanda, The permissions for re-use are described in the Eclipse Public License (EPL), and there's a link to the EPL at the bottom of each page of the published EPF content. This gives you the legal language for what you're allowed to do.
Described informally, the EPL allows you to use the content and freely
distribute it with your own content, internal or commercial. However, you
must include the copyright notices and EPL with any open source content
that you use. For instance, IBM uses the EPF library as a base for its own
commercial product, the IBM Practice Library. So it's common to see the EPF
copyright statement and EPL link at the bottom of many of the pages in our
library.
- Jim
Jim Ruehlin, IBM Rational Software
Method Architect, ADC CoP
RMC SIG Lead
jrueh...@us.ibm.com
voice: 949.545.8912
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Hi – apologies if this is not the correct forum for a question about OpenUP
copyright.
We are looking to use EPF to document our own development processes, based
on the OpenUP content already defined but amending it in some places - but
I’m unsure of what the copyright means, and what it allows us or prevents
us from doing.
Are we able to copy some parts of its content into our own process
(including the copyright acknowledgement)? Our own process would be used
mainly internally, but in future could be something that we share as a part
of our consulting business.
Yolanda
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