[License-review] New Exhibit A for EPLv2

[Meeker, Heather J.]

Thank you, Mike.

Has there been an official announcement or publication of EPL 2.0 yet?

Heather

From: License-review [mailto:license-review-bounces at opensource.org] On Behalf Of Mike Milinkovich
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:11 PM
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Subject: [License-review] New Exhibit A for EPLv2


All,

For your information, a short time ago we realized that there was a problem with the original wording of the Exhibit A of the new EPLv2. As you may recall, this exhibit provides a notice to be used by a project that wants to enable GPL compatibility. The original version stated that “This Source Code is also Distributed under one or more Secondary Licenses...". The use of the word "is" in that context is incorrect, as the text of the EPLv2 license makes it clear that the GPL compatibility allows the EPLv2 code along with the GPL. In other words, this was quite wrong, and could not be fixed in an FAQ or other explanation.

As a result the following revision was made to the Exhibit A (change in bold+italics below).

Exhibit A – Form of Secondary Licenses Notice

"This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied: {name license(s),version(s), and exceptions or additional permissions here}"
Simply including a copy of this Agreement, including this Exhibit A is not sufficient to license the Source Code under Secondary Licenses.

If it is not possible or desirable to put the notice in a particular file, then You may include the notice in a location (such as a LICENSE file in a relevant directory) where a recipient would be likely to look for such a notice.

You may add additional accurate notices of copyright ownership.

Because we only changed the notice in the exhibit and not the text of the license itself, we went ahead and made these changes to the EPL-2.0 posted by the OSI and the Eclipse Foundation.
/mike
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