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Bug 561657

Summary: [license] Alternative licensing approval for Eclipse Decentralized Marketplaces
Product: Community Reporter: Maria Teresa Delgado <mariateresa.delgado>
Component: EMO ApprovalsAssignee: Eclipse Management Organization <emo>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: alexey, jan, lisa.schneider, mike.milinkovich, sharon.corbett, wayne.beaton
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Mac OS X   
URL: https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-decentralized-marketplaces
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Bug Blocks: 560785    

Description Maria Teresa Delgado CLA 2020-04-01 14:16:13 EDT 
We need to petition the EMO Executive Director and/or the Eclipse Board of Directors in order to implement this non-standard licensing scheme.

Project Lead(s), we need text that concisely describes the project and the motivation for needing the alternative licensing scheme. A couple of paragraphs of text is generally sufficient for these purposes.

Please start with a one or two sentence executive summary of the project, and then describe why the project needs to be licensed in this manner. Please avoid providing technical detail; a two or three sentence executive summary will suffice for each of these paragraphs.
Comment 1 Jan Pauseback CLA 2020-04-02 03:10:39 EDT 
EPL restricts participants from contributing due to IP limitations it places on them by forcing them to release modified versions of the code they would potentially integrate.
Comment 2 Wayne Beaton CLA 2020-04-02 14:51:12 EDT 
Let's turn this around. Instead of saying why you don't want to use a particular license, we need this expressed as why you do want to use another.

The project team wants to use the Apache-2.0 license because it allows consumers to make derivative works without obligation to make those derivative works available under the project license.
Comment 3 Mike Milinkovich CLA 2020-04-20 13:55:35 EDT 
Approved