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Re: [orion-dev] Orion license

John,

I am pretty sure that the file header format that you chose is consistent with other dual-licensed projects. It is JGit which is the outlier, as it is our only BSD-only project. 

Regarding your mention of a LICENSE.md: if by that you mean a copy of the text of either the EPL or the SUA in Markdown, please don't. Or at least please don't without the full involvement of the EMO. We have to sign off on any new formats of the license materials, because lawyers say that that formatting matters. Apparently their ability to parse white space is not as good as ours :)

If anyone thinks that Markdown versions of our licensing materials are necessary, please open a bug and assign it to me. 

Mike Milinkovich
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On 2013-04-12, at 9:12 AM, John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Since we are dual-licensed, it wasn't practical to include the entire EDL text in each header. You can copy the template from an existing orion client source file, or there is one documented here:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/Coding_conventions#Copyrights

The license information is included in the README.md at the root of each repository. I suppose we could also have a LICENSE.md but I hate duplicating the information in various places. I actually think the info in README.md needs a bit of work, since there are always various exceptions documented in about.html, etc. It should probably say license is EPL+EDL unless stated otherwise in the source file or something to that effect.


John




From:        Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx>
To:        Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Orion developer discussions <orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date:        04/10/2013 06:39 PM
Subject:        Re: [orion-dev] Orion license
Sent by:        orion-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx




On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Matthias,

 

As I recall, the client side has been dual licensed and there are discussions about dual licensing the server going forward.

 

But your comment that the orion.client sources indicate EPL only seems incorrect. From my orionhub account, I can quickly see that the fileheader in org.eclipse.orion.client.editor/web/orion/textview/textView.js is as follows. It clearly states that the file is dual licensed (emphasis mine). I’m not sure why your experience is different.


yes, this helps. 

I didn't spot this small addition in the client sources which are indeed mentioning EDL
and providing a link to the full license text.

I was expecting to see the explicit EDL header as we were told to use in JGit sources
which are EDL only. This looks very different since it's a lot longer.

I'll adapt the license header for the client part of my first contribution [1] accordingly ;-)

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=399023

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Matthias
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