[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Allowed to extract JDT compiler ?

["Philippe Mulet" <philippe_mulet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe the answer is yes, but you should ping the Eclipse foundation for
a definite legal answer.

One thing worth noting is that jdtcore.jar contains a superset of what you
need. You could simply select the files located under:
- org/eclipse/jdt/core/compiler/**
- org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/**
These have absolutely no dependency on the Eclipse runtime, and can be run
naked against a JRE.

"Sébastien Boucard" <sboucard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:cgur8t$6jk$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I was really impressed by the opportunity to run the batch compiler :
>
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/jdt-core-home/howto/batch%20compile/batchCompile.html
>
> I am in charge of Mia-Generation (www.mia-software.com), a tool aimed to
> build custom code generators. Generation scripts are currently compiled
> using Sun's javac (from tools.jar).
>
> I would see many advantages to switch to JDT compiler :
> - much much faster !
> - better error reporting
> - our tool could be used with a JRE, while using javac implies to use a
> JDK.
>
> What I would like to do : take only the jdtcore.jar (with no modification)
> and redistribute it with our product, with correct licensing resources. I
> don't want to tell all my customers to download Eclipse to be able to run
> our product, just for compiling purpose.
>
> Now what about legal issues ?
>
> Am I allowed to take only a jar file from Eclipse and redistribute it ?
> I looked at the CPL, the legal stuff pages, forums, etc, but still not
> sounds perfectly clear to me.
>
> Many thanks,
> Sébastien Boucard
>