[License-review] New Exhibit A for EPLv2

[Mike Milinkovich]

On 2017-09-15 12:22 PM, Tom Marble wrote:
> what benefit does the EPL 2.0 provide over classical dual
> licensing that was already possible under EPL 1.0?

To be blunt: none that I can think of.

This was a pragmatic way for us within the Eclipse community to solve 
the issue of projects asking to be dual-licensed EPL+BSD to allow GPL 
compatibility(*). Which meant that we were introducing permissive 
licensing where we may otherwise have not wanted to. Not every decision 
that gets made is perfectly rational, and the Eclipse Foundation Board 
of Directors has always had an allergic reaction to the GPL. So this is 
a licensing solution to a political issue.

Hopefully that's not too candid :)

(*) For those who do not know, the Eclipse Foundation does host projects 
using licenses other than straight EPL. Over 20% of our projects are 
dual-licensed (EPL+*), or using another license such as MIT, BSD or 
Apache. There are no projects which are GPL, or even dual-licensed 
EPL+GPL. Any request by a project to use a license scheme other than 
solely the EPL must be unanimously approved by the Eclipse Foundation 
Board of Directors.