Thanks, I'll follow up to epl-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxx tomorrow after
people have had a chance to subscribe.
The issue is University of California-wide, not just UC Berkeley.
It came up recently because we received proposed guidelines from the
University of California Office of the President (UCOP) about open
source contributions to projects with patent clauses like EPL, APL
and GPLv3. The feedback we gave them was that the workaround is
Individual Contributor Agreements and that the Educational
Community License, Version 2.0 (ECL-2.0) had been used in the past.
I also suggested that they not use open source software for their
websites or OS's (Mac OS X includes Apache-licensed code). :-)
Previously, the issue came up in late 2015 when I wanted Berkeley to
join the Eclipse Foundation. I did not raise this issue with the
Eclipse Foundation because it seemed unlikely to be promptly
resolved.
I agree that changing the license is probably out of scope.
_Christopher
On 2/16/16 12:35 PM, Mike Milinkovich
wrote:
On 2/16/2016 2:35 PM, Erwin de Ley
wrote:
From
the analysis by Christopher below, it would seem that a rather
small addition/modification in the standard EPL could enable
academic/research institutions to actively participate in
Eclipse open-source projects. Whereas the current EPL patent
clause seems to prohibit that.
Changing open source license terms is an extremely time-consuming
and difficult thing to do. However, for those who are interested
in such things there are on-going (but currently dormant)
discussions about revising the EPL at epl-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxx
Personally I don't understand such legal details, but the issue
encountered for UC Berkeley is probably widely applicable to
many more US institutions (and European ones as well I guess).
And it would seem that the Science IWG is specifically impacted
by this as we're targeting research/academic instutions a.o.
UC Berkley is the first institution in 12 years to raise these
concerns. I would not rush to any assumptions about their
conclusions.
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