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

[Gervase Markham]

On 16/06/17 20:24, Mike Milinkovich wrote:
>  1. GPL compatibility is not automatic. I used a poor choice of words
>     when I said it was modeled after the MPL 2.0 approach. The EPLv2 is
>     not automatically GPL compatible. Instead, the initial contributor
>     has to specify GPL compatibility when they start.

I was going to point this out, but Mike beat me to it. MPL 2.0 was GPL
compatible by default for _new_ uses, and for upgrades where GPL or LGPL
was one of a set of multiply-licensed options (as it was for the Mozilla
codebase).

EPL 2.0 is not GPL compatible by default for new uses. There's no legal
reason it couldn't be - you'd just have to reverse the way the added
text worked, so you added text if you _didn't_ want GPL compatibility,
or if you were upgrading from EPL 1.0. But that's not the way the
current draft works. (Note: "no legal reason" != "no reason" :-)

Gerv