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> Von: Wayne Beaton <[email protected]>
> Betreff: Aw: [cross-project-issues-dev] EPL 2.0 upgrade => minor or major 
> version change?
> Datum: 26. Februar 2018 um 16:54:39 MEZ
> An: Cross project issues <[email protected]>
> Antwort an: Cross project issues <[email protected]>
> 
> That wording is strange. I don't think that "simultaneous" should be there. 
> I'll sort that out.
> 
> IMHO, semantic versioning is tied to the technical implementation. You can 
> update the project license whenever you're ready and include notification of 
> that as a feature of your next major/minor/service release.
> 
> I don't subscribe to platform-dev (heresy... I know), so please pass this 
> response to them on my behalf.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Karsten Thoms <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> In EPL 2.0 FAQ [1] it is mentioned that
>    "Users and adopters of Eclipse projects should expect the next 
> simultaneous release of each Eclipse project will be using EPL-2.0.“
> 
> For such an Eclipse project migrating to EPL 2.0, does this imply a major 
> version change? Or is a minor version change enough? The versioning 
> guidelines [2] state that the minor version is to be changed
>    "when a plug-in changes in an "externally visible“ way"
> 
> Could an Eclipse project change to EPL 2.0 with a minor release then, since 
> the license upgrade is just an „externally visible“ change?
> 
> Kind regards,
> ~Karsten
> 
> [1] https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/faq.php#h.60mjudroo8e5 
> <https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/faq.php#h.60mjudroo8e5>
> [2] 
> https://wiki.eclipse.org/Version_Numbering#When_to_change_the_minor_segment 
> <https://wiki.eclipse.org/Version_Numbering#When_to_change_the_minor_segment>
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