Jakarta EE @EclipseFdn: Getting it done
To say that bringing Jakarta EE to life at the Eclipse Foundation was a massive undertaking is a gross understatement...
Intellectual Property
The Eclipse Committer Election Workflow
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
The term Intellectual Property (IP) refers to any sort of creative work, be it literature, art, or software. In the...
Running a Successful Open Source Project
This post is based on a talk that Gunnar Wagenknecht and I delivered at the Open Source Leadership Summit 2017...
Automatic License Certification By The Numbers
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
Late last week, I pushed out an update to our documentation regarding the legal documentation requirements for Eclipse projects that...
License Certification (Mostly) Just Happens
The Eclipse Intellectual Property Policy defines two types of intellectual property (IP) due diligence for third party content. The so-called...
Service Releases of Third Party Content in the Eclipse IP Due Diligence Process
Some time ago, the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors passed the following resolution. RESOLVED, that previously approved dependencies of Eclipse...
Prerequisite Dependencies
All third party content must be taken through the Eclipse Foundation’s Intellectual Property (IP) Due Diligence Process before being used...
Eclipse Infrastructure Support for IP Due Due Diligence Type
The Eclipse Foundation’s Intellectual Property (IP) Policy was recently updated and we’re in the process of updating our processes and...