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Bug 569602

Summary:	[license] Alternative licensing approval for OSGi Specification Project
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton>
Component:	EMO Approvals	Assignee:	Eclipse Management Organization <emo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	hargrave, mike.milinkovich, sharon.corbett, wayne.beaton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/osgi-specification-project
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	569599

Description Wayne Beaton

2020-12-09 13:05:11 EST

We need to petition the EMO Executive Director in order to implement this non-standard licensing scheme.

Project Lead(s), absent any pre-emptive engagement by the EMO(ED), please provide text that concisely describes the project and the motivation for needing the alternative licensing scheme. A sentence or two (a couple of paragraphs at most) of text is generally sufficient for these purposes.

Comment 1 BJ Hargrave

2020-12-09 13:08:38 EST

OSGi has long used AL2 as its license. To change to EPL2 or AL2 OR EPL2 would be a lengthy exercise. Many already consume under AL2 (e.g. many Apache projects), so a change to EPL2 (only) would be disruptive. A change to AL2 OR EPL2 would be less disruptive but would still take time to vet and approve and would not necessarily add any value.

Comment 2 Mike Milinkovich

2020-12-09 13:38:41 EST

Approved