EFSP: The EFSP Wayne Beaton 26 November 2018 The Eclipse Foundation Specification Process defines a general framework for developing specifications in open source at the Eclipse Foundation; it...
EFSP: The EDP Wayne Beaton 7 November 2018 The Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) was authored as an extension to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). With this in...
Eclipse IP Process: Service Releases of Third Party Content Wayne Beaton 23 October 2018 The primary role of the Eclipse IP Team is to reduce the risks associated with adopting open source software. In...
The Eclipse Committer Election Workflow Wayne Beaton 8 February 2018 In the world of open source, Committers are ones who hold they keys. Committers decide what code goes into the...
Decoding the Eclipse IP Policy: Third Party Dependencies Wayne Beaton 26 January 2018 The term Intellectual Property (IP) refers to any sort of creative work, be it literature, art, or software. In the...
Automatic License Certification By The Numbers Wayne Beaton 11 October 2017 In 2016, we introduced the notion of license certification intellectual property (IP) due diligence (“Type A”) into the Eclipse IP...
Legal Documentation Requirements for Eclipse Projects Wayne Beaton 6 October 2017 Late last week, I pushed out an update to our documentation regarding the legal documentation requirements for Eclipse projects that...
Eclipse Projects: Level Playing Field Wayne Beaton 2 August 2017 For many open source organisations, open means the same thing as transparent: open as in open book. At the Eclipse...
Eclipse Project Branding and Trademarks Wayne Beaton 30 June 2016 As part of the project creation process, the Eclipse Foundation assumes ownership of the project’s name. As a legal entity...
Releases and the Eclipse Development Process Wayne Beaton 19 February 2016 The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) regards a release as a pretty significant event. A release is similar to what other...