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Bug 343856 - Board approval to use EDL for examples and snippets
Summary: Board approval to use EDL for examples and snippets
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: PMC (show other bugs)
Version: 3.7   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-04-26 10:28 EDT by John Arthorne CLA
Modified: 2011-04-26 11:12 EDT (History)
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Description John Arthorne CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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