[news.eclipse.technology.dltk] Re: Eclipse and JRuby licensing

[Louis Rose <louis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alex, Chris,

Great, thanks for your help. I'll contact the legal staff.

Thanks for the link to your IPzilla - that's most useful.

Cheers,
Louis.

Alex Panchenko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> DLTK uses only subset of JRuby classes (parser), the IP process for it 
> was covered by https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1137
>
> I suppose you need new & full JRuby, so dependency on DLTK is not an 
> option here. Probably it makes sense to make jruby available from Orbit.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> Chris Aniszczyk wrote:
> > Louis Rose wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Please forgive the off-topic post...
> > >
> > > I'm a committer on Epsilon, part of the GMT project. We're 
> > > contemplating developing some new plug-ins using JRuby. We were 
> > > wondering if anyone working on the DLTK project knows about the 
> > > licensing issues surrounding JRuby, and releasing plug-ins through 
> > > Eclipse that contain JRuby code.
> > >
> > > Specifically, what is the IP process for JRuby code? How do we manage 
> > > the dependency on JRuby? Do we need to bundle JRuby as part of our 
> > > feature, or should we depend on the DLTK project?
> > >
> > > Many thanks for any ideas you may have.
> >
> > Ideally, I think you should speak with the Eclipse Foundation's legal 
> > staff. The other option is to ask for advice of the Eclipse 
> > Architecture Council (EAC). You can open a bug against the EAC seeking 
> > advice.
> >
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Architecture_Council
> >
> > We love to help.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris Aniszczyk | EclipseSource Austin | +1 860 839 2465
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