[pde-dev] Repackaging org.osgi.service.component.annotations from Equino

[Peter Nehrer <pnehrer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

in order to improve user experience with DS Annotations, I need to contribute package org.osgi.service.component.annotations to PDE projects' classpath (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=488800). This package is already part of Equinox's org.eclipse.osgi.services bundle; however, in order to make these annotations available to external builders, they would need to be in a separate jar (otherwise users would have to place the entire bundle on the build path).

Would it be OK to extract that package from Equinox and provide it via PDE as a separate JAR? Since this isn't new code contribution, do I need any special permissions/process? Thanks!

--Peter