press-release/20081112_termsofuse.php

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		<h2>Community Bulletin</h2>
     	November 12, 2008
		<p>
			Effective today, the Eclipse Foundation has made a number of changes to the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/legal/termsofuse.php">
			Eclipse.org web site terms </a>
			of use.  This document describes the conditions under which people use the eclipse.org web site, 
			including contributions to the Eclipse community via bugzilla, mailing lists and newsgroups.   		
		</p>
		
		<p>
			There are two main reasons for the changes:
		<ol>
		<li>The updated terms of use establishes a framework for licensing non-code contributions, like articles, 
		wikis, blogs, etc, under a license other than the EPL.  The previous terms of use was not clear on 
		non-code contributions.  Right now, we have not defined the additional licenses, but in the future the 
		updated terms of use will provide the flexibility to license non-code contributions under different 
		licenses, e.g. a Creative Commons license.  We hope to get the required Eclipse Board of Directors 
		approvals in place soon.</li><br><br>
		<li>In September 2008, the Eclipse IP Policy was changed to introduce the concept of a Project License(s).
		   This was primarily done to allow for the scenario where an Eclipse project may be dual licensed.  For 
		   example, the Eclipse Link project needed to be available under a BSD license so it could be used as 
		   the reference implementation for JPA 2.0.  The web site terms of use document has been updated to 
		   reflect that contributions to a project would be done under the Project License(s), not just the EPL. <br>
		   		
		We do not anticipate that many projects will become dual licensed.  The decision to allow a project to be 
		dual license is done on a case-by-case basis and requires the unanimous approval of the Eclipse Board of 
		Directors.
		</li>
		</ol>
		</p>
		<p>
		The updated <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/legal/termsofuse.php">terms of use</a> have been approved by the IP Advisory Committee of the Eclipse Board of 
		Directors and will become effective November 12, 2008.  Any questions or comments should be directed to 
		<a href="mailto:license@eclipse.org">license@eclipse.org</a>.
		</p>
		<p>
		Reference: <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/legal/old_termsofuse.php">Previous Terms of Use</a>
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