Re: [technology-pmc] [CQ 8940] HDF5 1.8.14

[Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay,

"GPL compatibility" has definitely been used as a reason for other projects in the past. So no guarantees, but I think it would be accepted.

Mike Milinkovich
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From: Jay Jay Billings

Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 4:23 PM

To: Mike Milinkovich; Technology PMC

Subject: Re: [technology-pmc] [CQ 8940] HDF5 1.8.14

Mike,

Do you think the reason for this code being release EDL is sufficient to or at least stands a good chance to receive board approval? That reason being:

... it probably needs to be published under a New BSD license or EDL. If we released it with the EPL, those people who compiled it and linked it into their product may actually have further license problems if they have GPL pieces in their stack.

Also, just for anyone interested, here's a paper describing what the combination of ICE and this C++ code can do: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.2795v1.pdf

Jay

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/04/2015 11:37 AM, Jay Jay Billings wrote:

I have previously inquired about releasing code under EDL and was told it would have to be taken to the board, if I remember correctly.

That is true. But if there is a good reason for the code to use the EDL, it will be approved.

Dual-licensing EPL+EDL has the advantage that code could be cut-and-paste into another EPL-only licensed project at Eclipse. But that is likely of minor interest given that it's C++ code we're talking about here.

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