[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: epl-v10 Question

[Ed Merks <Ed.Merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill,

Dump it in a zip file and have a link for it only any publicly 
accessible website.  Or open a bugzilla, and dump it there; even if it's 
closed or rejected, it will still be recorded...


Bill Winspur wrote:
> Ed Merks wrote:
> > Bill,
> >
> > Ask your lawyer if you want legal advice. :-P
> >
> > My free non-legal advice is that as long as you make the source code 
> > of your modified variant publicly available, you're doing exactly 
> > what's required.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill Winspur wrote:
> > > I would like to create a (probably renamed) variant of Class 
> > > XMLMemento (and inteface IMemento) that is not dependent on package 
> > > org.eclipse.ui.internal, and would package the modified class as a 
> > > jar to be used:
> > >
> > > 1. In junit test cases in launched from eclipse, but not running in the
> > > plugin environment.
> > >
> > > 2. In external tools launched from eclipse.
> > >
> > > 3. In java applications completely separate from eclipse.
> > >
> > > Can I acomplish this without violating the the terms of epl-v10, 
> > > under which XMLMemento is currently distributed?
> > >
> > > Bill Winspur
> Thanks Ed,
> However, being a recluse by nature, I have never made code publicly 
> available. In all seriousness, could you suggest a low-cost way that I 
> could do that?
> Bill