[cosmos-dev] Re: Dojo toolkit legal issues are gone

[David Whiteman <David_Whiteman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bjorn wrote on 01/09/2008 02:41:12 PM:

> Sheldon, David, and the rest of the COSMOS team,
> 
> Unfortunately, referencing a required library (dojo) via a CDN rather
than a 
> eclipse.org download does not solve the legal issue. According to
the Eclipse Board
> of Directors, required dependencies of an Eclipse project must also
go through the 
> legal review process (see http://www.eclipse.
> org/org/documents/Eclipse_Policy_and_Procedure_for_3rd_Party_Dependencies_Final.pdf
> ). The purpose of this policy is to ensure that Eclipse frameworks
are usable by 
> the eco-system without constraints -- if an Eclipse project (under
EPL) *requires* 
> another framework (for example GPL) before the project will function,
then 
> effectively the framework can only be reused under GPL, n'est pas?
> 
> Thus the COSMOS project must use the CQ process to gain approval to
reference dojo 
> as an external dependency.
> 
> - Bjorn
> 
> Harm brought to my attention that AOL has made dojo toolkit builds
available on the
> content delivery network (http://dojotoolkit.org/2007/11/06/dojo-1-0-0-available-aol-cdn)
> 
> I've modified the data visualization code so that the UI references
the 1.0.0 build
> on CDN instead of a local copy of the dojo toolkit.  I opened
bug 211240 to track 
> this solution (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=211240)
> 
> The following are benefits to doing this: 
> - no more legal hassle since we are no longer packaging dojo with
our drivers.  
> Instead we are referencing the builds on CDN 

An unfortunate reminder that "no more legal hassle"
rarely comes to fruition. :-)

David