Blog Posts

    Eclipse IP Policy: Reviewing Third Party Content

    by Wayne Beaton

    I’ll start this discussion with some background… Under the original Eclipse Foundation Intellectual Property (IP) Policy, every bit of third party content needed to be thoroughly reviewed before it could be used by an Eclipse project. And the reviews were thorough: license scan, provenance check, scan for anomalies, … Reviews...

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    Update to the Eclipse IP Policy

    by Wayne Beaton

    Sharon Corbett drafted this message that the IP Team has been posting on some of our CQs. I’d like to share it more broadly. The Eclipse Board of Directors approved changes to the Eclipse Intellectual Property Policy on October 21, 2019. The most significant change relates to how we will...

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    Processes…

    by Ivar Grimstad

    It has been a lot of talk about processes in the Jakarta and MicroProfile community lately, so I just want to remind us all about this item from the Agile Manifesto. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. https://agilemanifesto.org/ That said, some process is needed. Especially for work with specifications...

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    Running a CI system is hard? It doesn't have to be.

    by Denis Roy

    At EclipseCon Europe 2019 I attended a very interesting talk entitled " CI systems need care, too! Here's how we improved ours over the years". It was an eye opener! Here's what I gathered. New developer comes to a Company Company sells a software product built by a CI system...

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    Eclipse Project Licenses

    by Wayne Beaton

    While it’s true that most Eclipse projects use the Eclipse Public License, many Eclipse open source projects use alternative licenses either alone or in combination. The chart below shows the relative use of various license schemes by Eclipse open source projects: Note that we use SPDX expression. In SPDX, license...

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    Signing in…

    by Ivar Grimstad

    It’s been a week since I started as the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation! As you may have noticed, I am involved in almost any committee around Jakarta EE and enterprise Java in general and my new role has some implications for these engagements. I have listed...

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    A Committer’s View of Our New ECD Tools Working Group

    by Thabang Mashologu

    When you look at the very impressive list of founding members for our new Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) Tools Working Group, it’s clear that world-leading technology companies strongly believe that open source, cloud native development tools are needed. Our Eclipse Foundation developer community has also enthusiastically embraced the initiative. To...

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    Revising the Eclipse IP Policy: Third Party Content

    by Wayne Beaton

    The Eclipse Foundation is in the process of making a major update to our Intellectual Property Policy. A big part of this update is a change in the way that we will manage third party content. In the context of the Eclipse IP Policy, “third party content” is content that...

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    Jakarta EE Community Update October 2019

    by Tatjana Obradovic

    Welcome to the latest Jakarta EE community update. In this edition, we highlight key opportunities to participate in upcoming community events, explore the Jakarta EE 8 release, and learn more about the very bright future of cloud native Java. EclipseCon Europe 2019: Register for Community Day Community Day , which...

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