One interesting suggestion that came back is the idea of using EPL and BSD.

I asked for examples so we could understand what that means… and see if it is a 
viable compromise for us.

Mike Milinkovich wrote:

> Sure. See EclipseLink, Orion (client), EGit and Lyo for examples of
> dual-licensed projects under EPL+EDL(BSD)



Hunting down those examples…

ECLIPSE LINK

Project: http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/

Source code: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/?root=RT_PERSISTENCE

This seems poorly done the source code page says "The contents of the CVS/SVN 
repositories are made available under the terms and conditions of the 
Eclipse.org Software User Agreement."
This is neither EPL or BSD and actually results in a 404 :-)

Still lets check with the actual source code says…
- http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/rt/org.eclipse.persistence/trunk/license.html
- that actually looks fairly straight forward, license.html says the code is 
distributed under EPL and EDL (i.e. BSD) and then provides both
- this is using the older style license.html conventions that uDig currently 
follows (so we need another example)

ORION

Project: http://www.eclipse.org/orion/

Interesting it is using github (or has a try it on github). The website is much 
more simple the the usual eclipse fair.

Source code: https://github.com/eclipse/orion.client

Checking what the source code says:
- 
https://github.com/eclipse/orion.client/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.orion.client.core/about.html
- straight forward
- uses about.html convention so is a good example to follow
- does not correctly include the license files (so not a perfect example)

So this looks like a good approach and not that much more effort to do. I think 
this is my preferred option, but let us hear back from the community.
--  
Jody Garnett

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