Foundation

Eclipse Foundation Projects are OpenChain Conformant

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 09:46 by Mike Milinkovich
Today we announced that the Eclipse Foundation is the first open source foundation to confirm its open source development process conforms with the OpenChain ISO 5230 international standard for open source license compliance. This means that every Eclipse Foundation project is being developed under a process which conforms to the...

Eclipse IoT: 10 Years of Connecting the World One Device at a Time

Thursday, September 23, 2021 - 12:15 by Mike Milinkovich
It’s been 10 years since the Eclipse IoT Working Group was first established as the M2M Industry Working Group. I want to sincerely thank everyone that has helped make Eclipse IoT the leading community for open source IoT technology innovation and collaboration. To celebrate this anniversary and a decade of...

Shaping the Future of the Eclipse IDE

Thursday, June 17, 2021 - 08:03 by Mike Milinkovich
I’m very pleased to share the news that multiple Eclipse Foundation members have joined forces in a new working group focused on advancing and sustaining the Eclipse IDE used by millions of developers the world over. The Eclipse IDE Working Group members will leverage our governance framework to openly collaborate...

On Patents and Specifications

Thursday, May 13, 2021 - 15:20 by Mike Milinkovich
We’ve been fielding a number of questions lately about the intersection of our spec process and patents. A couple of these community discussions have gone off in directions that are off target, factually incorrect, or both. Therefore, the purpose of this short FAQ is to explain the patent license options...

Open VSX: A Vendor-Neutral Home for VS Code Extensions

Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - 07:33 by Mike Milinkovich
With the transition of the Open VSX Registry from TypeFox to the Eclipse Foundation, the industry now has a vendor-neutral and publicly hosted open source alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace for VS Code extensions. The move increases transparency and flexibility for extension users, extension publishers, and tool developers...