Comments on: Source-opening of open-source ? http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/09/05/source-opening-of-open-source.html Where he blogs about his eclipse musings Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:37:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Paul Colton http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/09/05/source-opening-of-open-source.html/comment-page-1#comment-73 Paul Colton Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:20:44 +0000 http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/09/05/source-opening-of-open-source.html#comment-73 We just announced that we added GPL as one of the license options to the Aptana IDE. You can read all about it here: http://www.aptana.com/blog/?p=184 We just announced that we added GPL as one of the license options to the Aptana IDE. You can read all about it here: http://www.aptana.com/blog/?p=184

]]> By: Paul Colton http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/09/05/source-opening-of-open-source.html/comment-page-1#comment-72 Paul Colton Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:50:38 +0000 http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/09/05/source-opening-of-open-source.html#comment-72 Ketan, You can absolutely write and distribute anything you write for our IDE. I've written a short blog post to try to clarify some items, you can read it here: http://www.aptana.com/blog/?p=179 Thanks, Paul Colton Ketan,

You can absolutely write and distribute anything you write for our IDE. I’ve written a short blog post to try to clarify some items, you can read it here:

http://www.aptana.com/blog/?p=179

Thanks,
Paul Colton

]]> By: Ketan http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/09/05/source-opening-of-open-source.html/comment-page-1#comment-71 Ketan Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:21:49 +0000 http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/09/05/source-opening-of-open-source.html#comment-71 Todd, I'm speaking of a general case where the copyright for the contribution is retained by the company/foundation that maintains it. In case of code contributed to eclipse, I'm aware of the fact that the copyright does does belong to the individual contributions, and I believe this is a good thing to happen. Todd,

I’m speaking of a general case where the copyright for the contribution is retained by the company/foundation that maintains it.

In case of code contributed to eclipse, I’m aware of the fact that the copyright does does belong to the individual contributions, and I believe this is a good thing to happen.

]]> By: Todd http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/09/05/source-opening-of-open-source.html/comment-page-1#comment-70 Todd Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:51:22 +0000 http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/09/05/source-opening-of-open-source.html#comment-70 Ketan, I wanted to comment about a remark you made regarding contribution under the EPL. Let me preface the remarks with the standard IINAL and this is not legal advice: "I contributed my work under EPL, but since the copyright belongs to the company maintaining the project, the company may just decide to change the license terms altogether." The copyright to EPL'd code stays with the contributor, not the company or entity maintaining the project. For example, if you go look at the source in the various Eclipse projects you'll see copyright notices for IBM, BEA, Actuate, etc since those companies wrote and contributed the code. You'll never see a copyright for the Eclipse Foundation itself. The same is true in your case for your contribution so it cannot be changed to Aptana's license without your express consent and recontribution. In fact, when the Eclipse Foundation went from the CPL to the EPL a couple of years ago, each past contributor had to be contacted and had to agree to the license change or the code was removed from Eclipse and rewritten. It was not a small effort. :-) Regards, Todd Ketan,

I wanted to comment about a remark you made regarding contribution under the EPL. Let me preface the remarks with the standard IINAL and this is not legal advice:

“I contributed my work under EPL, but since the copyright belongs to the company maintaining the project, the company may just decide to change the license terms altogether.”

The copyright to EPL’d code stays with the contributor, not the company or entity maintaining the project. For example, if you go look at the source in the various Eclipse projects you’ll see copyright notices for IBM, BEA, Actuate, etc since those companies wrote and contributed the code. You’ll never see a copyright for the Eclipse Foundation itself. The same is true in your case for your contribution so it cannot be changed to Aptana’s license without your express consent and recontribution.

In fact, when the Eclipse Foundation went from the CPL to the EPL a couple of years ago, each past contributor had to be contacted and had to agree to the license change or the code was removed from Eclipse and rewritten. It was not a small effort. :-)

Regards,
Todd

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