Hi Ed, Thanks for the answer. This is also what I think need to be done. But because I am not sure, I preferred to ask the question.
Following the advice from Mickael, I transfered the question to the IP team. I will wait for there answer. Regards. -- Rémi DRUILHE 2017-07-06 11:20 GMT+02:00 Ed Merks <[email protected]>: > Rémi, > > I believe (am pretty sure) that in order to move source code to Eclipse > and to change the license of that code to EPL, all the copyright holders > (all people who ever contributed anything to the source) must agree to the > license change. Without that agreement, you can't change the license > regardless of how much you've added to the code. No amount of change will > eliminate the contributions of the original copyright holders. > > Regards, > Ed > > On 06.07.2017 10 <06%2007%2020%2017%2010>:24, Rémi Druilhe wrote: > > Hello incubation mailing list, > > We are in the process of providing a new set of modules from our internal > project to the Eclipse IP review for putting them public. > > In particular, we use an old version of a GPL library, i.e., nrjavaserial. > For our own purpose and to integrate it in our project, we retrieved the > source code of this 3rd party library and started to modify it. At some > point, we asked ourself if the newly provided library is still under GPL > because a major part of the code as been re-writed (even if we don't know > the delta between the old one and the new one). > > My question is: is this new library still under GPL despite major > modifications or can we say that this is a new library that can be pushed > under Eclipse license ? At which point a modified library can be considered > as new and independent from the initial library? > > I think I already know the answer but I wanted to ask anyway. Just to be > sure. > > Thanks, > > Best regards. > -- > Rémi DRUILHE > > > _______________________________________________ > incubation mailing [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visithttps://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/incubation > > > > _______________________________________________ > incubation mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/incubation > >
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