+1 Nice additions. I think the EPL really captures the spirit of the permissive licensing for addons and copyleft for the core that should allow each party to have the "freedom" (quoted due to the dual meaning) they want.<br>
<br>-Dan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Jason Porter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lightguard.jp@gmail.com" target="_blank">lightguard.jp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>One small amendment to what Dan said. EPL is copyleft if you're distributing a derivative or even the original work in source form. Distribution in object form allows for a different license as long as all the contributions acknowledgement remains, hence the permissive part.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Eclipse Foundation has stated that with eclipse, plugins do not qualify as a derivative work. I'm reasonably sure we can say the same for Forge. </div><div><br></div><div>AFAIK, we have no patents on any of Forge, but the EPL allows for patents similarly to the ASL should that be a concern for anyone. <br>
<br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On May 26, 2012, at 14:24, Dan Allen <<a href="mailto:dan.j.allen@gmail.com" target="_blank">dan.j.allen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite">
<div><p>I was going to say, this isn't a switch from APL to ESL. I doubt I'd advocate for that switch ever. This about LGPL to EPL, from a weak copyleft to a permissive license.</p>
<p>(The general thinking is that the permissive license makes communities easier to grow and with the right motivation, though it really depends on the circumstances.)</p>
<p>EPL is a well designed permissive license for tool platforms that support plugins. I encourage you to read it and we can discuss how it applies. I'll save my commentary until then.</p>
<p>-Dan </p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On May 26, 2012 12:50 AM, "Lincoln Baxter, III" <<a href="mailto:lincolnbaxter@gmail.com" target="_blank">lincolnbaxter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
For clarification, Forge is currently LGPL :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:29 PM, George Gastaldi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gegastaldi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gegastaldi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Absolutely ! Feel free to add anything related to it on the issue.<br>
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2012/5/24 Jason Porter <<a href="mailto:lightguard.jp@gmail.com" target="_blank">lightguard.jp@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div>> I think those interested would want to know pros / cons in laymen's terms. Could we have that in the JIRA?<br>
><br>
> Sent from my iPhone<br>
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> On May 24, 2012, at 13:23, George Gastaldi <<a href="mailto:gegastaldi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gegastaldi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hello all,<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Dan Allen, Lincoln and I were discussing about moving Forge license to<br>
>> EPL (Eclipse) instead of the current Apache one.<br>
>> What are your thoughts about it? Glad if you could post your comments<br>
>> on <a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-580" target="_blank">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-580</a><br>
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