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| Packaging and delivering Eclipse based products</H1> |
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| The Eclipse platform is designed so you can add plug-ins that provide functionality |
| for the software development tools community. Commercial software |
| vendors can build, brand, and package products using the platform as a base |
| technology. These products can be sold and supported commercially. |
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| The Eclipse SDK can be downloaded and used as a Java IDE and Eclipse plug-in |
| development tool, but it is not marketed as a commercial product. The |
| platform provides the raw ingredients for a product without a box, label, or |
| price tag. It defines a file and directory structure that lets you |
| easily customize the platform's about dialog and splash screen to brand your |
| product.</p> |
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| The license governing the Eclipse platform gives you a lot of freedom over how |
| to build and configure a product. However, Eclipse based products will |
| coexist more easily on a user's system if the products use similar standards |
| for packaging, configuring, and installing their products.</p> |
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