Dear Mihini team, hi Benjamin –
A new group at WindRiver might be interested leveraging Mihini, but there are concerns that we cannot link EPL code into target runtimes that we sell to our end users. IIRC, a main concern is that end users who have some EPL code in their
devices would have to ship a licensing document with the device that gives details about where to obtain source code – and that’s not practical, or even impossible with some devices.
For that reason, the EDL (“Eclipse Distribution License”), which is BSD, was defined a couple years ago and we use it in the TCF project for any code that’s meant to be linked into runtimes. In fact, the TCF agent is dual-licensed under
EPL + EDL.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/TCF#How_is_TCF_licensed.3F
Has such a licensing change been considered by Mihini so far ?
For us in TCF, it was a key point for getting any serious adoption. And we decided to change the license early, before there’s too many independent contributors … each contributor would have to be asked, therefore a licensing change is
much easier when the project is new in Open Source and mostly backed up by a single company.
Any thoughts ?
Thanks,
Martin
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Martin Oberhuber, SMTS / Product Architect – Development Tools,
Wind River
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