If someone has its own build of the Eclipse IDE, can he
offer it for download? I heard that only Eclipse.org is
allowed to do this. I think it would be strange if we
encourage people to build their own Eclipse IDE but don't
allow them to distribute it. In addition AFAIK Fedora ships
a custom build as well as Yoxos ships custom Eclipse
distributions. Anyone knows the rules about this?
I'm pretty sure anyone is allowed to build and ship or cell his own
IDE based on Eclipse or altered versions of some Eclipse project.
That's the essence of EPL.
However, the question you have is more related to naming a product
"Eclipse" if it's built outside of the Foundation knowledge. I think
this document (which I didn't read) gives some hints about how much
one is allowed to use the word "Eclipse":
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/logo_guidelines.php
I guess the Eclipse Foundation is OK with letting other OSS
communities, such as Fedora and other Linux distributions, using the
word "Eclipse" for their alternative build of Eclipse since it's a
win-win. But in case someone is doing something bad with that name,
the Trademark would allow the Foundation to ask people to stop using
the word "Eclipse".
My 2c.
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