Re: [cosmos-dev] Re: Dojo toolkit legal issues are gone

[Sheldon Lee-Loy <sleeloy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll reopen the ipzilla.

For now we will need some form of legal
statement on the COSMOS download page for dojo.

Tania can you follow up on what kind
of legal notice we need to provide?

Thanks,

Sheldon
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10/01/2008 10:38 AM

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Bjorn wrote on 01/09/2008 02:41:12 PM:

> Sheldon, David, and the rest of the COSMOS team,
> 
> Unfortunately, referencing a required library (dojo) via a CDN rather
than a 
> eclipse.org download does not solve the legal issue. According to
the Eclipse Board
> of Directors, required dependencies of an Eclipse project must also
go through the 
> legal review process (see http://www.eclipse.
> org/org/documents/Eclipse_Policy_and_Procedure_for_3rd_Party_Dependencies_Final.pdf
> ). The purpose of this policy is to ensure that Eclipse frameworks
are usable by 
> the eco-system without constraints -- if an Eclipse project (under
EPL) *requires* 
> another framework (for example GPL) before the project will function,
then 
> effectively the framework can only be reused under GPL, n'est pas?
> 
> Thus the COSMOS project must use the CQ process to gain approval to
reference dojo 
> as an external dependency.
> 
> - Bjorn 
> 
> Harm brought to my attention that AOL has made dojo toolkit builds
available on the
> content delivery network (http://dojotoolkit.org/2007/11/06/dojo-1-0-0-available-aol-cdn)
> 
> I've modified the data visualization code so that the UI references
the 1.0.0 build
> on CDN instead of a local copy of the dojo toolkit.  I opened
bug 211240 to track 
> this solution (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=211240)
> 
> The following are benefits to doing this: 
> - no more legal hassle since we are no longer packaging dojo with
our drivers.  
> Instead we are referencing the builds on CDN 

An unfortunate reminder that "no more legal hassle" rarely comes
to fruition. :-) 

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