License Profile: The Eclipse Public License

Autor(i)

  • Katie Osborne ST-Ericsson Inc

Ključne riječi:

Eclipse Public License, Law, information technology, Free and Open Source Software,

Sažetak

The Eclipse Public License (“EPL”) is an open source license that is widely used in various open source projects, most notably by the Eclipse Foundation. The EPL is often described as a weak copyleft license, and contains a narrower and, some argue, more precise reciprocity obligation than that of the GNU General Public License (“GPL”). Further, the EPL includes a patent retaliation provision intended to discourage patent litigation, but still limited in scope so as to not scare off companies with large patent portfolios. This article provides a summary and overview of the EPL

Biografija autora

  • Katie Osborne, ST-Ericsson Inc
    Senior Legal Counsel

Preuzimanja

Objavljeno

2015-11-18

Broj časopisa

Svezak 7 Br. 1 (2015)

Rubrika

Articles

Licenca

The most restrictive licence we will accept for submission is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) SPDX identifier CC-BY-4.0

Kako citirati

License Profile: The Eclipse Public License. (2015). Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society, 7(1), 1-12. https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/view/73