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[eclipse.org-membership-at-large] RE: Re-Contribution to EPL
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All,
On November 28th, the Foundation had sent out a
communication to its members regarding our Re-Contribution to EPL
activity. We realize how busy our members are at this time of year. If you
have not already done so, we would like to take this time to remind you of the
approaching deadline of December 15th for Members to complete and submit the
Eclipse Re-License Permission Form. Your cooperation in helping us meet
the deadline is much appreciated. Should you have any questions or require
more information, please do not hesitate to contact either Carolyn Hayden (cc’d)
above or myself.
Our goal is to have this transition completed by
December 31st, 2004.
For those of you who have already sent in your
completed forms, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for helping
us to meet our transition deadline.
Thank you for your attention to this
matter.
All,
As part of its formation, the Eclipse Foundation is required to migrate
from the Common Public License (“CPL”) to the Eclipse Public License (“EPL”)
for all Content published under its auspices.
To make this transition, Eclipse
requires the help of all of its Members to agree to re-contribute all
contributions to Eclipse.org under the terms of the CPL, where these
contributions were made prior to September 9th,
2004.
The attached document "EPL
Re-contribution Letter Final.pdf" explains the background in greater detail.
Please note in particular that:
- All Members have agreed to use the
EPL when they signed the Eclipse Foundation Membership Agreement;
and
- Contributions can include any source
code, documentation, bug fixes, designs, suggestions, material and/or other
intellectual property submitted through the Eclipse newsgroups, mailing
lists, Bugzilla bug reporting system and/or otherwise made available on the
www.eclipse.org website by your
company's employees, consultants, etc. Basically, if someone has filed a bug
report or a posted to a newsgroup your organization has made a
contribution.
Please complete the attached document
"Eclipse Re-License Permission Form Final.pdf" and fax it to the Eclipse
Foundation no later than December 15,
2004.
If you have any questions, please feel
free to contact either Carolyn Hayden (cc'd) above or
myself.
Thank you for your attention to this
matter.
