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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Open Software without Free Trade.
Thank you Mike for your comments.

Personally I find that we (the collective Eclipse community) are very impacted by the current events - like so many people in the world. Eclipse projects have many active community members in Ukraine and Russia and that personal connection we have makes it hard to know what the correct approach to take regarding open source software. For now I err on the side of wanting to keep our communities open (both the code, but also the free flow of ideas).

Regards,
Jonah
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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com


On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 09:21, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jörg,

Factually, what you are implying about the EPL is incorrect. Like the GPL the EPL is also a free software license, as is every other license used by Eclipse Foundation projects. And the 4 freedoms referenced by Boris fully apply to every project here. Implementing what you are suggesting would be close to impossible.

That said, the Eclipse Foundation obeys every law and regulation that applies to it. For example, we follow all export controls that apply to us under US and European law. If the current conflict results in additional regulations we will apply them as well. That is not the case as of this moment.

The Eclipse Foundation stewards a global community that embraces technologies from all countries. The free flow of openly licensed technologies drives innovation in all sectors of the economy today. For a peaceful and prosperous future we want to promote the lawful use of free and open source software from around the world. The creation of geopolitical silos within the open source community would be failure IMHO.

Mike Milinkovich

Executive Director | Eclipse Foundation AISBL

Twitter:@mmilinkov

On 2022-03-01 8:41 a.m., jkubitz-eclipse@xxxxxx wrote:

Dear Boris,

Note that eclipse is not under GNU but EPL licensed. Therefore it is *not* public domain.

 

Yours

Jörg

Von: cross-project-issues-dev <cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> Im Auftrag von Boris Baldassari
Gesendet: Dienstag, 1. März 2022 13:53
An: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Betreff: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Open Software without Free Trade.

 

Dear Jörg,

 

Note: this is my personal opinion and does not engage anyone else.

 

Whatever we think about the current situation, the 4 freedoms that define free/libre open source software absolutely forbid us, or anybody, to do that.

 

 

Cheers,

 

 

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boris

 


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