Re: For Approval: Eclipse Public License - v 1.0

2004-03-09 Thread Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.
ot;Rank, Michael J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 6:27 PM Subject: For Approval: Eclipse Public License - v 1.0 APPROVAL REQUEST: When the Eclipse consortium was first formed in November 2001, IBM's Common Public License v 1.0 (CPL) was used to license the initial

Re: For Approval: Eclipse Public License - v 1.0

2004-03-08 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
If the only substantive change is dropping the patent termination clause, then this sounds like it is just as compliant as the IBM license. I haven't read the license, but assuming what Philip said is true then I'd recommend approval. -- Ernie P. On Mar 8, 2004, at 3:27 PM, Ma, Philip wrote:

For Approval: Eclipse Public License - v 1.0

2004-03-08 Thread Ma, Philip
APPROVAL REQUEST: When the Eclipse consortium was first formed in November 2001, IBM's Common Public License v 1.0 (CPL) was used to license the initial Eclipse code base as open source. The CPL was already approved by the OSI at that time as conforming to the Open Source Definition. When Eclips