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[jwt-dev] Licensing issues
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Hi
there,
Chris and me are
currently preparing the newest AgilPro installer which is adapted to Eclipse
Galileo. Here, I realized that we still have some licensing questions open:
AgilPro has been GNU GPL v2 in the last versions since it integrates the
Workflow-Codegeneration framework which itself is GPL (since it integrates the
token-analysis-framework which is GPL...). This comes from the viral factor that
the GPL has, which says that each product build upon GPL must be GPL
again.
On the other side we
integrate JWT's code in it, which is EPL. Generally, GPL and EPL code are not
compatible, which would be a problem. However, as can be seen in the EPL FAQ
from the Eclipse foundation [1], EPL code can be integrated into a GPL product
ONLY if one is the owner of the software or the owner authorized one to license
it in GPL.
In the last versions
this was not a big problem, since mostly Chris and me have been implementing
that code and we agreed to it. But now, there is a huge part of the code that
has been developed by other members of the JWT team (mainly OpenWide, but also
Obeo, etc.), so we now need a permission of all JWT members that are owner of
the code that is part of Galileo.
Similarly the Scarbo
tools (e.g. demonstrators or runtime) build on LGPL right now. As soon as not
only Mickael and Marc work on the JWT Runtime framework, but also others,
they'll need the same permission.
That is why I would
like to discuss this topic in our telco this afternoon. If you have developed
code which is part of Galileo and you do not agree in this license change as
part of AgilPro, please be part of our telco today or let us know via
email.
Thanks and hear you
later,
Florian
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Dipl.-Inf. Florian
Lautenbacher
Programming Distributed Systems Lab
Institute of Computer
Science
University of
Augsburg
Universitätsstr.
14
86135 Augsburg,
Germany
phone: +49 821
598-3102
fax: +49 821 598-2175
