[License-review] For Approval: Eclipse Public LIcense version 2.0

Mike Milinkovich mike.milinkovich at eclipse-foundation.org
Thu Jun 15 20:38:14 UTC 2017


On 2017-06-15 4:28 PM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> On 15/06/17 20:50, Mike Milinkovich wrote:
>> I look forward to all comments and feedback from this list.
>> "Contributor" means any person or entity that Distributes the Program.
> This seems like an odd definition of "Contributor". Would it not make
> sense to call such a person a "Distributor"? I think people reading the
> license will assume a Contributor is someone who actually contributed to
> the project.

That definition is the same as in EPL version 1.0. We did look at doing 
exactly what you described, but we determined in the end that the 
surgery would too extensive.

> Nit: full-stop-comma in line 4 of defn. of "Modified Works".

Nothing is a nit at this stage. Thank you for the catch.

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Mike Milinkovich
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