[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Is my RCP app compliant with the Eclipse

["Philippe Ombredanne" <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx>]

"Arnaud" <no@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your advises, althought I didn't understand the first joke
> ... I am not english speaking by birth :(

Dear Arnaud,
I believe nobody can be 'english speaking by birth'. This is definitely an
acquired taste.
Like you -based on your first name- I have been raised in a
well-behaved-french-speaking-country, but I happen to live in the US.
External social pressures forced me to learn this barbaric language, and I
am still not very good at it.
LOL

Now, the United States of America is a country where law practice is stricly
regulated.
You are not supposed to practice law and give legal advices if you are not a
licensed practitioner, like a lawyer is.
Google IANAL and TINLA.
This is not a joke, but a common practive when discussing legal topic, just
to warn that I am not a lawyer, and therefore you cannot sue me for
malpractice or practicing law without a license when I give you tips which
are not legal advices anyway.
:D

> It's hard to define the limit if yes or no you modify the Eclipse stuff
> : the classes I wrote are completly different from Eclipse ones but I
> have integrated in them five or ten line codes taken from Eclipse that
> corrects some bugs (Resource management is a good source of bugs because
> of platform differences between Linux or Windows for example).
This is simple, binary: you copied code or not.
If you did, you wrote a derivative work.
Now if you have a bug, file it!

>I'll  rewrite these code parts so they will not be derivated from Eclipse
> anymore (more of the bugs corrections doesn't apply to my app cause I do
> extra checking that already avoid such bugs in fact).
If your code is entirely original, then it is your work, not a derivative.

> Anyway, you're right I should ask a lawyer for more information ;)
Find a good one that understands open source, and there are not that many .
A few of those hang out around the license-discuss list at
http://opensource.org

And check the legal page @ eclipse, they also have an email somewhere where
you can ask questions.
But the they are not lawyers either
:-)