Re: [che-dev] Clarifications on what will/will not be open sourced from

[Tyler Jewell <tjewell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick:

1. Fair Source is not open source. Fair source is applied to our binary distribution only.  And the fair source license allows you to look and modify code for your own use, but there is no redistribution of it.  Ie, another vendor is not allowed to take the code. Also, the code itself is currently proprietary licensed.

2. We will EPL all of the source code, but only some subsystems will go into Eclipse Che. Moving into Eclipse Che requires legal and IP checks for provenance performed by the Eclipse Foundation.

3. We have not yet published which subsystems will go into Eclipse Che, as in order to disclose that Red Hat needs to also disclose their corporate strategy.  We have a blog post drafted and ready to go, just finalizing internal approvals so that we can publish.

4. No, we are not talking about maven modules as sub-systems. 

Tyler

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On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Nick Chen <nchen.dev@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

In http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/che-dev/msg02259.html, Tyler wrote: "As part of the Red Hat acquisition of Codenvy, Red Hat is open sourcing certain Codenvy subsystems related to security, authentication, and persistence that will move into Eclipse Che.”

Could someone from the core team please clarify what that means? I don’t see any information on that on the Roadmap page on GitHub (https://github.com/eclipse/che/wiki/Roadmap). I am interested to see how this would affect the Che 6 deliverables and timelines that have already been mentioned.

Here are some specific questions that I have.

0) What does “open sourcing” mean? Currently Codenvy is under the Fair Source License which means that the source is already available for use under special situations. Moving forward, are you changing the license to the EPL?

1) When you mention subsystems, are you talking about particular maven modules e.g., https://github.com/codenvy/codenvy/tree/master/wsagent?

2) Are there any subsystems that you don’t plan to open source?

It would be nice if the Che roadmap page be updated to reflect that information as well.

Thanks!

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