License Profile: The Eclipse Public License

Các tác giả

  • Katie Osborne ST-Ericsson Inc

Từ khóa:

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

Tóm tắt

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

Tiểu sử Tác giả

  • Katie Osborne, ST-Ericsson Inc
    Senior Legal Counsel

Tải xuống

Đã Xuất bản

2015-11-18

Số

Tập 7 Số 1 (2015)

Chuyên mục

Articles

Giấy phép

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

Cách trích dẫn

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