| Licensing.. Just to be sure.. [message #100526] |
Wed, 21 April 2004 04:37 |
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Originally posted by: jari.lahtinen.tietoenator.com
Greetings!
We have been reading a lot about Eclipse platform licensing matters and we
have really studied CPL- license. Anyhow, there still seems to be some
blank points in our knowledge. Could You be so kind and councel us with
these license matters. If You are not capable of answering to questions
included in this email, could You be so kind and forward this email to
someone who might have a clue of these matters.
The question itself is a simle one:
We have seen some commercial programs made based on Eclipse platform. This
refers that it is possible to make non- open source program and distribute
it with charge.
Let's make a hypothesis that some company would make some rather vast
software. This software would use Eclipse platform and GEF framework as a
base for its functionality. Software would mention that it uses Eclipse
platform and GEF framework which are distributed under CPL- license.
Now, is it completely lawful to distribute this software at some large
company's web site with or without charge. Software would include
mentioning about the third party components it uses, including Eclipse-
made components distributed under CPL- license, but software source code
would ofcourse not be available..
- jari
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