RE: [epf-dev] Clarity on EPL

[Ricardo Balduino <balduino@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On top of what Nate described, I'd add
that if a company uses (copy and paste) snippets of OpenUP  to build
a process and commercialize it, they would need to make that process available
under EPL.

Ricardo Balduino
Senior Software Engineer

IBM Rational (www.ibm.com/rational)
EPF Committer (www.eclipse.org/epf)

"Nate Oster" <noster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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02/01/2007 09:36 AM

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Ostensibly, I would think that
they’re free to incorporate OpenUP content, in whole or in part, into
their own original works of authorship, without incurring any obligation
to the community.  However, if they modify the OpenUP/Basic (or other
plugin) content at all, they would be required by the terms of the EPL
to contribute that modified content to the project.
 
Example: Write a TDD plugin
that overrides the “Create Test Cases” task = no obligation.
Modify the OpenUP/Basic “Create
Test Cases” task in their own environment = required to share with EPF
 
Nate

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[mailto:epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Lyons
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:33 AM
To: Eclipse Process Framework Project Developers List
Subject: [epf-dev] Clarity on EPL
 
hiho,
 
I am trying to understand the Eclipse Public
License, but I am having trouble translating its meaning to the real-world
circumstances of the usage, modification, and cannibalism possibilities
for OpenUP.
 
We have a customer who would get great value
from organizing their process assets from a SPEM perspective, managing
and publishing them with EPF Composer, and utilizing the process content
from OpenUP.  But they are already down the path of doing an informally
structured website full or process content.  If I propose OpenUP/Basic,
there is a good chance they’ll say “can I just grab <this chunk>
and <this chunk>?”
 
So is it legal in the Eclipse Public License
for an organization to just copy some guidelines and cut-and-paste some
other snippets into their process repository that is not using EPF Composer
and then go on about their business?
 
           
                     
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