[news.eclipse.technology.ecesis] Re: Copyright issue

["Bjorn Freeman-Benson" <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Next, I would like to point to the fact that the "java programming with
> eclipse" course, which is licensed under the CPL contains on each page
> in the bottom right hand corner a copyright mention for a company called
> Esperity Inc. Is this coherent with the CPL ?

Definitely.
The CPL and EPL (see http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-v10.html)
grants you, the Eclipse user, with a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free
license to use the material, but it does not grant you ownership of the
material.  If you look at the Eclipse Platform code (here I randomly select
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.core.expressions/src/org/eclipse/core/internal/expressions/AndExpression.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup)
you'll see that the code is copyright by a company as well - in this case by
IBM.

If you have other questions about the licensing, you can ask the experts at
the Eclipse Foundation by email at license@xxxxxxxxxxx

Hope this clarifies your question,
Bjorn Freeman-Benson