Clarify License

[misto]

What license governs the use and code of Sconsolidator?

[mrueegg]

Not defined yet. Should we use EPL as we've done for other Eclipse plug-ins in the past?

[PeterSommerlad]

No, that would allow others to just take it and sell it.

Dual license, lgpl and optional commercial on request wpuld be my best guess.

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On 16.12.2014, at 15:29, "Michael Rüegg" [email protected] wrote:

Not defined yet. Should we use EPL as we've done for other Eclipse plug-ins in the past?

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[mrueegg]

Something like this, or do you have a better example?

Copyright (C) 2014, University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil. All rights reserved.

This program and the accompanying materials are dual-licensed under either the terms of the LGPL

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[stuartbryson]

lgpl would be great for us. We use scons for our projects and a lot my colleagues have expressed interest in this plugin. Do you guys have an ETA for getting the license clarified?

[russel]

@stuartbryson I am not sure why there is any issue of licence for use of SConsolidator in Eclipse. You load it and use it. Unless you integrate SConsolidator into a product you distribute, use of the tool has no licencing issue on product created using the tool.

[stuartbryson]

@russel - thanks for the info Russel. Our company is pretty strict and need a published license that states something similar to what you just said. I couldn't find anything about licensing except on this thread.

[russel]

@stuartbryson I think your company is being quite sensible. A project without a specified licence is, by default, writer copyright, except that lawyers make money out of the doubt and uncertainty because the default depends on the jurisdiction. Hence GitHub clampdown on un-licences project repositories. Every code repository should always have an explicit licence, even commercial projects requiring an NDA to even know the code exists.

[stuartbryson]

Any update on this?

[mrueegg]

I'm currently looking for an example text for a dual license (LGPL and commercial). If you know a good example text, please let me know. Couldn't find one on http://choosealicense.com ...

[russel]

Choose A Licence site will never deal with commercial licences since it is only about FOSS. You will have to get a lawyer to draw up a commercial licence for the company that will be the beneficiary. Obvious example here is Qt (but not PyQt which remains GPL and commercial rather than LGPL and commercial). http://qt-project.org/products/licensing

[stuartbryson]

Hey guys, We are still not using this product due to lack of license. But new hires have expressed interest in using it. Any chance of getting this finalized?

[PeterSommerlad]

For just using Sconsolidator, get Cevelop at www.cevelop.com which is free to use and defines a license (As IFS we also "own" Sconsolidator, because it was developed by our (former) students/assistants). If you want to extend and modify it, please contact me directly (or reply here) in a commercial setting, we can provide a suitable licensing agreement.