https://www.eclipse.org/legal/logo_guidelines.php says this:
| Unless otherwise agreed to in advance in writing (which may be in | email form) by Eclipse, the following restrictions apply: | […]
| 3. Nobody other than Eclipse open source projects may develop or | maintain software packages that use 'org.eclipse' in their | namespace. An important use of the 'Eclipse' Trademark is the | 'org.eclipse' string used on all namespaces for Eclipse open source | projects. This naming convention is used to identify code that has | been developed as part of an Eclipse open source project.
Doesn't this make software that uses classes in the org.eclipse.* non-free because changes (for software maintenance or otherwise) are not allowed?
Other namespaces are affected as well:
| Use of the 'jakarta', 'ee.jakarta', or 'org.jakarta' namespaces is not | permitted unless authorized in advance in writing by Eclipse.
(But I don't think this concerns anything shipped by Fedora.)
| Use of the 'org.locationtech' or 'org.polarsys' namespaces is not | permitted unless authorized in advance in writing by Eclipse.
The org.locationtech restriction impacts the jts and spatial4j source RPMs.
Thanks, Florian
On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 16:48 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/logo_guidelines.php says this:
Unless otherwise agreed to in advance in writing (which may be in email form) by Eclipse, the following restrictions apply: […] 3. Nobody other than Eclipse open source projects may develop or maintain software packages that use 'org.eclipse' in their namespace. An important use of the 'Eclipse' Trademark is the 'org.eclipse' string used on all namespaces for Eclipse open source projects. This naming convention is used to identify code that has been developed as part of an Eclipse open source project.
Doesn't this make software that uses classes in the org.eclipse.* non-free because changes (for software maintenance or otherwise) are not allowed?
Other namespaces are affected as well:
Use of the 'jakarta', 'ee.jakarta', or 'org.jakarta' namespaces is not permitted unless authorized in advance in writing by Eclipse.
(But I don't think this concerns anything shipped by Fedora.)
Use of the 'org.locationtech' or 'org.polarsys' namespaces is not permitted unless authorized in advance in writing by Eclipse.
The org.locationtech restriction impacts the jts and spatial4j source RPMs.
Isn't the EPL license the written permission? Eclipse ships the open source projects under the EPL which gives you permission to develop and maintain those software packages and use those namespaces for that as long as you follow the EPL.
Cheers,
Mark