<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Patrick,</div><div><br></div><div>Apologies for the top post. I'm on my phone. </div><div><br></div><div>"Modified Works" is used in the last sentence of the definition of Contribution. It is the exclusion of Modified Works from Contributions that defines the scope of copyleft in the EPLv2. This construction (e.g. the copyleft scope buried in a definition) was also in the EPLv1. </div><div><br></div><div>HTH</div><div><br><br><div><div style="direction: inherit;">Mike Milinkovich</div><div style="direction: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><a href="mailto:mike.milinkovich@eclipse-foundation.org">mike.milinkovich@eclipse-foundation.org</a></span></div><div style="direction: inherit;">(m) +1.613.220.3223</div><div style="direction: inherit;">Please note new email address. </div></div></div><div><br>On Jun 16, 2017, at 10:46 AM, <a href="mailto:patrick.moreau@tilc.fr">patrick.moreau@tilc.fr</a> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<p>I do not understand where is used the Modified Works in the license text.</p>
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<p>Patrick Moreau<br> <a href="mailto:patrick.moreau@tilc.fr">patrick.moreau@tilc.fr</a><br><br></p>
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<p>Le 15.06.2017 22:38, Mike Milinkovich a écrit :</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2017-06-15 4:28 PM, Gervase Markham wrote:</div>
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<pre>On 15/06/17 20:50, Mike Milinkovich wrote:
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<pre>I look forward to all comments and feedback from this list.
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<pre>"Contributor" means any person or entity that Distributes the Program.
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<pre>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.</pre>
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<br> 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.<br> <br>
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<pre>Nit: full-stop-comma in line 4 of defn. of "Modified Works".</pre>
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<p>Nothing is a nit at this stage. Thank you for the catch.</p>
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