Don't change the license text. Yes it feels weird.
The Eclipse Theia project has done it correctly. If anything I would add an SPDX-License-Identifier tag to the top of the file to make your intention completely explicit (to tools). In SPDX, the secondary licensing is expressed as a disjunction of licenses (from a consumer's perspective, it's no different from dual licensing). SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only with Classpath-exception-2.0 HTH, Wayne Wayne On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 2:50 PM Ralph Soika <ralph.so...@imixs.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to license a new project under *Eclipse Public License - v 2.0 - > with Secondary Licenses Notice for GPL 2.0* > > I took a look into the License Files of several Eclipse Projects. For > example Theia: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/blob/master/LICENSE > > What I do not understand is the paragraph "*Exhibit A - Form of Secondary > Licenses Notice*". I notice that all the projects I checked have not > modified this paragraph even if they append for example the GPL 2.0 as the > secondary license. > > *Should not the following origin paragraph:* > > * Exhibit A - Form of Secondary Licenses Notice* > > * "This Source Code may also be made available under the following* > * Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such availability set > forth* > * in the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied: {name > license(s),* > * version(s), and exceptions or additional permissions here}."* > > * Simply including a copy of this Agreement, including this Exhibit A* > * is not sufficient to license the Source Code under Secondary > Licenses.* > > * If it is not possible or desirable to put the notice in a > particular* > * file, then You may include the notice in a location (such as a > LICENSE* > * file in a relevant directory) where a recipient would be likely to* > * look for such a notice.* > > * You may add additional accurate notices of copyright ownership.* > > > *need to be changed into:* > > > * Exhibit A - Form of Secondary Licenses Notice* > > * "This Source Code may also be made available under the following* > * Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such availability set > forth* > > * in the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied: * > > > > > > > > > * The GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 with CLASSPATH > EXCEPTION --- ## The GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2, June 1991 > .... ....... * > > > > The text I removed here is for my understanding an instruction how my > final License File should look like and not a text that should be included > in my License file? > > I have attached my LICENSE file > > > Thanks in advance > > > Ralph > > > > > > > -- > > *Imixs Software Solutions GmbH* > *Web:* www.imixs.com *Phone:* +49 (0)89-452136 16 > *Timezone:* Europe/Berlin - CET/CEST > *Office:* Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1, 80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 136045 > Geschaeftsführer: Gaby Heinle u. Ralph Soika > > *Imixs* is an open source company, read more: www.imixs.org > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org > To unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev > -- Wayne Beaton Director of Open Source Projects | Eclipse Foundation My working day may not be your working day! Please don’t feel obliged to read or reply to this e-mail outside of your normal working hours.
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