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Bug 498216

Summary: [license] Dual license request for B612 EPL+EDL
Product: Community Reporter: Stephanie Swart <stephanie.swart>
Component: Proposals and ReviewsAssignee: Eclipse Management Organization <emo>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: gael.blondelle, laurent.spaggiari, mike.milinkovich, wayne.beaton
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows NT   
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Bug Blocks: 498211    
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Description Stephanie Swart CLA 2016-07-20 12:02:25 EDT 
The B612 project wishes to release under both the EPL and EDL.

We need you to prepare a short slide deck that Mike can present to the board of directors to motivate the requirement and get their approval.

See Bug 429689 for an example of what we're looking for.
Comment 1 Wayne Beaton CLA 2016-07-21 14:31:29 EDT 
Mike, what's your deadline to get this in front of the board for their August meeting?
Comment 2 Mike Milinkovich CLA 2016-07-21 14:37:45 EDT 
Monday, August 8th
Comment 3 Laurent SPAGGIARI CLA 2016-08-08 10:47:44 EDT 
Created attachment 263512 [details]
slide for Decision board
Comment 4 Laurent SPAGGIARI CLA 2016-08-08 10:51:51 EDT 
Just came back today from holidays.
Comment 5 Mike Milinkovich CLA 2016-08-08 10:59:03 EDT 
Those slides do a good job of explaining the project, but do not provide any information on the licensing topic. Is there anything you could add to explain your choices?

Just to throw out yet one more idea.... A font would fit our definition of Non-Code Content. Therefore, using a Creative Commons license could also be an option. See the policy at 
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/noncodelicenses.php
Comment 6 Laurent SPAGGIARI CLA 2016-08-08 11:30:10 EDT 
The B612 was originally developed under the BY/SA CC license :-)
When I built up the Polarsys project, I was advised by Gaël to request the EPL+EDL to have a "fully open source font".
Feel free to modify the slides if you think a CC license is better adapted.
Comment 7 Wayne Beaton CLA 2016-10-13 15:50:09 EDT 
We've consulted with the experts and it turns out that modern fonts are actually executable, and therefore the CC licenses are not a good match.

Anything that is downloaded to a user's system and executed is considered "code" and hence font falls in that category.

For completeness...

> it depends on what type of font it is - Bitmap fonts contain only data 
> (image) for each font. While the other types of fonts, eg: outline fonts, 
> contain instructions & mathematical formulae to draw each glyph. It seems B612 
> fonts are released in ".ttf" - as True Type Fonts, which by definition are 
> "outline fonts". 

We apologise for the delay. We will be going forward to the Board with your presentation that requested EPL+EDL.
Comment 8 Stephanie Swart CLA 2016-10-26 11:32:44 EDT 
As per Mike, the licensing has been approved by the board. We are done here.