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[jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-335) What is the category of EPLv2?
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John D. Ament commented on LEGAL-335:
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Ping?
The reason for this question to come up is now coming to fruition. The first few projects under Eclipse Enterprise For Java are now proposed, and all use the EPLv2 license (secondary license is the GPL w/ CPE). CDDL is no longer listed as a license.
What does this mean? The specs that the ASF implements within a few projects will be converted to EPLv2 (GPL+CPE). Its unclear to me right now if this implies anything to us for the required compatible API JARs. Initial input seems to indicate that they should be using a derived license. We have (under Apache Geronimo) produced these JARs as Apache Licensed, since they either are just API compatible (no javadocs) or implemented with comments if the original author is contributing them back to Apache under ICLA.
https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ee4j-community/msg00608.html
> What is the category of EPLv2?
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> Key: LEGAL-335
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-335
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: John D. Ament
> Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
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> https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
> This is the new version of the EPL, likely also a Cat B. The Eclipse Foundation is seeking input on the proposed EE4J (formerly Java EE) project and the issue of license to use has come up. This project intends to use a EPLv2/GPLv2+CPE dual license, and with EPLv2 in play I would like confirmation that there would be no issue leveraging it at least in binary form similar to today's requirements around CDDL/GPL.
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