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[mdt.dev] Fwd: Fw: [cross-project-issues-dev] Remember to update your feature.properties file, to use consistent licensing text

Project leads, please take the necessary action for your projects based on David's email below. Note that this involves updating all of your feature.properties, license.html, and notice.html files. As far as I understand it, the contents of your license.html and notice.html files should be identical (based on the new one attached to the bug referenced below).

Thanks,

Kenn

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:33 AM
Subject: Fw: [cross-project-issues-dev] Remember to update your feature.properties file, to use consistent licensing text
To: cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx



In case anyone hasn't noticed, the Eclipse Foundation has issued a new SUA document.

So, for those of you who acted quickly to this request on 4/7, then you'll be
well practiced to easily do it again? :/  

And, for the rest of you, then you've just been reinforced for procrastinating. :)

Please revisit bug 306627 for details and exact text to use.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=306627

Sorry for the churn. The new SUA is not radically different, but has some
important clarifications about implications of Eclipse's provisioning system.
Well, you know ... important for legal reasons, hence required for us.

And, in case you are wondering, yes it was considered to "push back" on
this request, but I think there is just enough time to accommodate it, without
endangering our Simultaneous Release so best to take advantage of
the timing to get current and consistent.

Much thanks,




----- Forwarded by David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM on 04/21/2010 10:16 AM -----
From: David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
To: cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 04/07/2010 02:03 PM
Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] Remember to update your feature.properties file, to use consistent licensing text
Sent by: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx






As I'm sure you are all aware, a new Helios Requirement this year is to use consistent license text, so the "license acceptance" dialog can be made more meaningful and easier to use.


And, that's _exactly_ consistent license text ... same year, same text, same capitalization. (I've heard consecutive white space doesn't matter, but why push it?).


So, yes, this does means almost all of us have to change.


See bug 306627 for some details on this topic, and the exact text to use.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=306627

Of course, this applies to those features that use the Eclipse SUA and if someone was shipping a feature in Helios that didn't use that, then you wouldn't want to change yours .... but, then I'd wonder why it was in Helios?


For reference, see
http://eclipse.org/legal/guidetolegaldoc.php
for details on the legally required documents ... but, this Helios requirement goes beyond the minimum requirement and gets us all to use the exact same text, so the software can tell when its really the same license.
If you try to get the "standard text" from the website, you need to be careful to get the plain HTML and ASCII versions, make sure there's no web encoding conversion errors, etc., so probably easiest to get from the bugzilla entry.


One disturbing angle that's come up, while some checked if we all use the same text, is that some of you are not using ANY (yet).  That is really a big "no no" and would be a "stop ship" issue, if found "at the last minute" (as far as I know,
it should be a stop ship issue even for milestones, etc ... but, I'm not here to judge ... yet).


So, let's try to get this all corrected for M7, so we don't have to monkey around with this routine level of detail for release candidates. Plus, if you fix yours for M7, that'll make all the slackers really standout in M7 and we can more easily see who they are :)


Much Thanks,

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