[incubation] Third party license issue

[Rémi Druilhe <remi.druilhe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello incubation mailing list,

We are in the process of providing a new set of modules from our internal project to the Eclipse IP review for putting them public.

In particular, we use an old version of a GPL library, i.e., nrjavaserial. For our own purpose and to integrate it in our project, we retrieved the source code of this 3rd party library and started to modify it. At some point, we asked ourself if the newly provided library is still under GPL because a major part of the code as been re-writed (even if we don't know the delta between the old one and the new one).

My question is: is this new library still under GPL despite major modifications or can we say that this is a new library that can be pushed under Eclipse license ? At which point a modified library can be considered as new and independent from the initial library?

I think I already know the answer but I wanted to ask anyway. Just to be sure.

Thanks,

Best regards.

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Rémi DRUILHE