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Re: CPL in debian?



Hi,

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 08:55 +0100, Michael Koch wrote: 
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:01:16AM +0100, Sebastian Menge wrote:
> > Especially: If I develop a eclipse-plugin under the CPL using only CPL
> > and/or GPL software, may I put it back to debian?
> 
> Well, Eclipse is in Debian which is licensed under EPL (a renamed CPL)
> and it is in main and not non-free.
> 
> There were some discussions about the CPL on debian-legal@ mailing list.
> In a 5 second google search I found this:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/12/msg00141.html
> 
> There is a wiki page about the DFSG compatibale and incompatible at
> http://wiki.debian.org/?DFSGLicenses

There is also some discussions about making the CPL/GPL-compatible (at
least for verion 3). See the blog of the Executive Director of the
Eclipse Foundation Mike Milinkovich:
http://milinkovich.blogspot.com/2005/11/eclipse-and-gpl-30.html

Cheers,

Mark

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