Re: [epf-dev] Copyright of content

[Jim Ruehlin <jruehlin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Yolanda,

The permissions for re-use are described in the Eclipse Public License (EPL), and there's a link to the EPL at the bottom of each page of the published EPF content. This gives you the legal language for what you're allowed to do.

Described informally, the EPL allows you to use the content and freely distribute it with your own content, internal or commercial. However, you must include the copyright notices and EPL with any open source content that you use. For instance, IBM uses the EPF library as a base for its own commercial product, the IBM Practice Library. So it's common to see the EPF copyright statement and EPL link at the bottom of many of the pages in our library.

- Jim

Jim Ruehlin, IBM Rational Software
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RMC SIG Lead
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Yolanda van Dorrestein ---09/07/2009 04:31:19 PM---Hi - apologies if this is not the correct forum for a question about OpenUP copyright. We are lookin

From:	Yolanda van Dorrestein <Yolanda.vanDorrestein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	"epf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx" <epf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	09/07/2009 04:31 PM
Subject:	[epf-dev] Copyright of content
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Hi – apologies if this is not the correct forum for a question about OpenUP copyright.
 
We are looking to use EPF to document our own development processes, based on the OpenUP content already defined but amending it in some places - but I’m unsure of what the copyright means, and what it allows us or prevents us from doing. 
 
Are we able to copy some parts of its content into our own process (including the copyright acknowledgement)? Our own process would be used mainly internally, but in future could be something that we share as a part of our consulting business.
 
Yolanda
 
 
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