Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Eclipse Public License - v 2.0 - with Sec

[Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't change the license text.

Yes it feels weird.

The Eclipse Theia project has done it correctly. If anything I would add an SPDX-License-Identifier tag to the top of the file to make your intention completely explicit (to tools). In SPDX, the secondary licensing is expressed as a disjunction of licenses (from a consumer's perspective, it's no different from dual licensing).

SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only with Classpath-exception-2.0

HTH,

Wayne

Wayne

On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 2:50 PM Ralph Soika <ralph.soika@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I plan to license a new project under Eclipse Public License - v 2.0 - with Secondary Licenses Notice for GPL 2.0

I took a look into the License Files of several Eclipse Projects. For example Theia: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/blob/master/LICENSE

What I do not understand is the paragraph "Exhibit A - Form of Secondary Licenses Notice". I notice that all the projects I checked have not modified this paragraph even if they append for example the GPL 2.0 as the secondary license.

Should not the following origin paragraph:

    Exhibit A - Form of Secondary Licenses Notice

    "This Source Code may also be made available under the following
    Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth
    in the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied: {name license(s),
    version(s), and exceptions or additional permissions here}."

      Simply including a copy of this Agreement, including this Exhibit A
      is not sufficient to license the Source Code under Secondary Licenses.

      If it is not possible or desirable to put the notice in a particular
      file, then You may include the notice in a location (such as a LICENSE
      file in a relevant directory) where a recipient would be likely to
      look for such a notice.

      You may add additional accurate notices of copyright ownership.

need to be changed into:

    Exhibit A - Form of Secondary Licenses Notice

    "This Source Code may also be made available under the following
    Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth
    in the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied:

   The GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 with CLASSPATH EXCEPTION

---

## The GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2, June 1991
....
.......

The text I removed here is for my understanding an instruction how my final License File should look like and not a text that should be included in my License file?

I have attached my LICENSE file

Thanks in advance

Ralph

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