RE: [platform-swt-dev] possible XML SWT markup language?

["Ed Burnette" <Ed.Burnette@xxxxxxx>]

Derek,
CPL allows for repurposing of the code for any use including commercial use and it doesn't have any requirements about the license of the containing product such as whether it has to be open or closed source, free or otherwise. By contrast, GPL requires that products containing GPL components be licensed under GPL and be open sourced. So the upshot is there can be no GPL'd components inside a CPL'd package. Apache is ok though. See www.opensource.org if you want to know more.

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> ?!???  i'm not a licencing expert by any means, in fact it's 
> only now that
> i looked closely enough to see that eclipse is CPL, not GPL.  
> but what's
> the problem between the two?  you can't build GPLed code on 
> top of CPLed?
> 
> -- derek