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

Okay, great. I'll put that in my queue and work on it.

Thanks for the help!

Jay

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All we need is approval by the PMC, and 3 or 4 slides that I can present to the Board explaining the background. In this case, please make it clear that you're not asking for the whole project to be re-licensed, only certain C++ components. Also please make it clear that you have the rights in place to re-license (e.g all the contributors work for ORNL, or equivalent).
From: Jay Jay Billings
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 4:29 PM
To: Mike Milinkovich
Cc: Technology PMC
Subject: Re: [technology-pmc] [CQ 8940] HDF5 1.8.14

Mike,

OK. We'll give dual EPL+EDL licensing a try because that would be the ideal scenario.

Do I work with the IP team to put together the request for the board? Write a little whitepaper or something describing the need?

Jay

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

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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