Re: Re-licensing from CPL to EPL (again)

For context, Philippe brought this to my attention again.  I think it's
time to just do it, but this is the chance for anyone who has concerns to
speak up.

   David


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Philippe Marschall <
[email protected]> wrote:

> **
>
>
> Hi
>
> There are several cases (at least NetBeans and OpenJDK) where JUnit
> can't be used because it's CPL and EPL would be fine.
>
> To sum up:
> - EPL is the latest version of CPL (yes, it's a bit confusing at first)
> - Since EPL is a more recent version of CPL relicensing does _not_
> require approval from all contributors (Section 7 of the CPL)
> - The difference between CPL is the removal of one sentence. It
> relates to the scope of patent licenses terminated should someone sue
> another party for patent infringement.
>
> You can find more information at [1], [2], [3] and look at a diff of
> the licenses at [4].
>
> On an unrelated note after tying to set up a Yahoo Groups account I
> hope that Yahoo goes bust.
>
> [1] http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/jruby-moves-to-the-epl/
> [2]
> http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/one-small-step-towards-reducing-license-proliferation/
> [3] http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#EPLDIFFER
> [4] https://github.com/junit-team/junit/pull/678/files
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
>  
>


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