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Bug 343856

Summary:	Board approval to use EDL for examples and snippets
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	PMC	Assignee:	Project Inbox <platform-pmc-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, remy.suen
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne

2011-04-26 10:28:42 EDT

We should consider requesting use of EDL for our examples and SWT snippets. In theory someone writing an application using one of our examples is obligated to contribute their changes under the EPL, which doesn't make sense.

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2011-04-26 11:02:46 EDT

Never mind, turns out this is approved:

http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/boardminutes/2008_11_19_Minutes.php

"Second, the IP Advisory Committee recommended that the Board approve the use of the Eclipse Distribution License (“EDL”) for example code.  Mike Milinkovich indicated that the use of the EDL would be at the discretion of the Project.  There was strong support for this proposal and there was unanimous consent to approve the following resolution:

            RESOLVED, that there was unanimous consent to approve the use of the Eclipse Distribution License (“EDL”) for example code."

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2011-04-26 11:12:00 EDT

Some more pointers for future reference:

http://eclipse.org/legal/noncodelicenses.php

http://eclipse.org/org/documents/Licensing_Example_Code.pdf