RE: [cdt-dev] Update on CPL to EPL transition -- help needed

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As to John Madsen's change, the fix that I commited for that bug was
different from the patch that he supplied.  So John's "=" -> "==" never
actually made it in.
See my comment in the bug
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=71669#c1.

-Andrew

cdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/23/2005 05:56:31 PM:

> Hi folks,
>
> as a further update on this... as a result of the last email, we
> received responses from Stefan Bylund and Uwe Stieber -- thanks to
> both for responding. We are now down to 4 people for completing the
> CPL->EPL transition:
>
> Hasse Hellberg (Lizsoftware) (win32 debug contributions)
> John Madsen (Illura) (1-line fix for parser - PR # 71669)
> Dirk Dorr (elf parser contrbutions)
> Christophe Juniet (wizard code)
>
> I have sent direct emails to the individuals above (if you are
> reading this, please respond). If we don't get responses by the end
> of the week, we will have to either remove or re-implement their
> contributions from the CDT head (3.0) stream, in order to complete
> the EPL transition. This is unfortunate, but we really will not havea
choice.
>
> John Madsen's contribution seems straightforward (change "=" to
> "=="); I'm not even sure how one would go about re-implementing this
> any other way. On the other hand, I'm not sure how much code is
> involved in Hasse's, Dirk's and Christophe's contribution.
> Doug/Alain -- do you have any rough guesses on this?
>
> Thanks to all for your continued help,
>
> Sebastien
>
> From: cdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Sebastien Marineau
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:23 PM
> To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cdt-dev] Update on CPL to EPL transition -- help needed

> Hi folks,
>
> I'd like to give everyone an update on where we are with the CPL to
> EPL transition. As most of you know, we produced a list of
> committers and contributors to the various components of CDT and
> gave this to the Eclipse foundation. They have been contacting all
> contributors to get their approval to re-license their contributions
> under the EPL. Things have been progressing quite well. We had over
> 55 committers/contributors on our list, and most have responded. All
> that responded have given approval to re-license their contribution
> under the EPL.
>
> However, we still have 6 contributors whom the foundation has not
> been able to contact (or who have not had a chance to respond).
> Contacting these 6 contributors is very important, as to complete
> the transition, we need to either get positive responses from them,
> or re-implement the code that they provided to CDT. Here are the 6
> contributors that we have not been able to contact:
>
> Stefan Bylund (ENEA)
> Hasse Hellberg (Lizsoftware)
> Uwe Stieber
> John Madsen (Illura)
> Dirk Dorr
> Christophe Juniet
>
> If any of you are reading this message, please email me
(sebastien@xxxxxxx
> ) and CC sharon@xxxxxxxxxxx. If people on the list know the
> individuals above, could you either ask that they email us, or could
> you send us their contact info (up-to-date email address and phone #)?
>
> Unfortunately, if we do not get responses within the next week,
> we'll have to look at re-implementing those contributions. I'm sure
> everyone would rather not have to do that :-)
>
> Thanks to all for your help,
>
> Sebastien