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 _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
