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[rt-pmc] GPL+CE Policy, and Jetty's use of it
Jesse, Greg,

Thank you for your patience. The Board has now approved the policy below, and Jetty can move forward with releasing its HTTP/2 ALPN support.

Please let us know if you have any questions.


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Policy on the Use of GPL+Classpath Exception by Eclipse Projects

Preamble

The GNU General Public License version 2, plus Classpath Exception (GPL+CE)[1]  is a widely used license in the Java ecosystem. This policy outlines how an Eclipse project may request approval to use or distribute a GPL+CE-licensed library, and the steps they will have to make use of it.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html

This policy relies upon and uses the terms from the Guidelines for the Review of Third Party Dependencies[2], and the Eclipse Due Diligence Process[3].

[2] https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_Policy_and_Procedure_for_3rd_Party_Dependencies_Final.pdf
[3] http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf

Policy

1. Distribution of any GPL+CE-licensed prerequisites by an Eclipse project will require super-majority approval by the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Use of a GPL+CE-licensed library as a works-with dependency will require approval by the EMO.

2. Do not create any derivative work from the GPL+CE-licensed code outside of the GPL+CE licensed component. Where possible and reasonable, it is recommended that changes made to the GPL+CE licensed component be offered back upstream to the original source of development. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact license@xxxxxxxxxxx.

3. Many open source projects do not provide binaries for their GPL+CE-licensed code. If the Eclipse project builds the executable form of the code from source, it must provide all source and build scripts such that a third party may attempt to re-build the distributed binary.


If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, please contact license@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Mike Milinkovich
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