Sounds good to me as well, thanks for the suggestion.

Jesse

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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