All,
There is actually a written
policy[1] on how to go about adopting the use of a third-party tool. The issue
I see in this case is that they are requesting an acknowledgement closer to a
product endorsement than a simple “thank you”.
Any questions can be directed to emo@xxxxxxxxxxx.
Thanks.
[1] http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_Using_Proprietary_Tools_Final.php
Mike Milinkovich
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From: Content-filter at foundation.eclipse.org
[mailto:postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Francois
Chouinard
Sent: February-04-10 6:28 PM
To: technology-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [technology-pmc] Java profiling and "Selling out to the
Man"
Hi "Technology PMC",
My name is Francois Chouinard and I work on the Eclipse integration of LTTng
under the Linux Tools project.
We recently had a demo of a Java profiler (YourKit) and were moderately (actually: quite) impressed.
It turns out that they have this program where active Open Source developers
can obtain a free license to use their product. In return, they ask that a
little HTML snippet be displayed somewhere on the project page. Here's the
snippet:
"
YourKit is kindly supporting open source projects with its full-featured Java
Profiler.
YourKit, LLC is the creator of innovative and intelligent tools for profiling
Java and .NET applications. Take a look at YourKit's leading software products:
<a href="" href="http://www.yourkit.com/java/profiler/index.jsp"
target="_blank">http://www.yourkit.com/java/profiler/index.jsp">
YourKit Java Profiler</a> and <a href=""
href="http://www.yourkit.com/.net/profiler/index.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.yourkit.com/.net/profiler/index.jsp">YourKit
.NET Profiler</a>.
"
If I recall well, the Eclipse foundation used to frown over this kind of
practice (if not downright forbid it) but I don't know where we stand now on
this issue.
Personnally, I would hesitate to "deface" our project page with
commercial (i.e. non-open) material but it seems to be a good tool and I have
some pressure from performance-freak, TPTP-disgusted, co-contributors to get it
:-)
So, I am weighing my options here and asking if it would infringe some rule
(Linux Tools, Technology, Eclipse, ...) to add this HTML snippet to the LTTng
project page.
Thanks in advance.
--
Francois
