Hi Chris, We all share the same concerns and I highlighted them in the filed CQ [1]. It might be interesting what happens when Microsoft releases their Ribbon with Windows7 [2] - maybe they change their policy then?
We'll see what the IP-Team tells us and then we can then decide what actions are needed. It would be so great to have such a nice control available across OS-boundries. Tom [1]https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3187 [2]http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/rib.aspx Chris Gross schrieb: > +1 on each of them. > The Ribbon is very cool but I'm skeptical that we'll be able to pull it > into Nebula. MS has stated that the Ribbon is their IP and they have a > specific agreement they want you to sign to use one of your own. I > believe the Eclipse guidelines expect you to have full patent-free > rights to any contributions and be able to grant those patents to the > Eclipse. IANAL so I guess we'll just see what happens with the Eclipse > IP process get started. > > regards, > -Chris > > Tom Schindl wrote: >> Hi Nebula Committers, >> >> Since sometime we have pending component proposals and I'd like to start >> the process to get those contributions into Nebula. >> >> The contributions are the following: >> ------------------------------------ >> >> * Office Ribbon from Emil Crumhorn >> Provides a M$ like Ribbon >> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=267015 >> >> * Rich-Texteditor from Pavel Petrochenko >> Provides HTML-Editing-Facilities >> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=255340 >> >> * RadioGroup/RadioItem from Matthew Hall >> Provides a List-like Group-Widget >> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=249060 >> >> * XViewer from >> Provides a fancy framework around SWT-Table/Tree >> >> http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology.nebula/msg01664.html >> >> @Don: Please file a bugzilla with the XViewer code >> >> Emil is already a committer on Nebula so I'm going to file a CQ for it >> right after this mail - for the other 3 contributions I'd request your >> feedback I think a 3 proposals are worth getting into Nebula. >> >> Tom >> _______________________________________________ >> nebula-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev >> >> > _______________________________________________ > nebula-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev _______________________________________________ nebula-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev
