Mike Milinkovich's blog

Next week is our first-ever Eclipse Board of Directors meeting outside of the USA. Berlin is our destination, primarily based on the fact that it is a darn cool city. Although Ralph won’t be able to join us, we are going to carry on the tradition he has created and...

I have been remiss in updating our website with information regarding some decisions made by the Board late last year. Totally my bad. So here is some good news: Projects can license their example code using the Eclipse Distribution License (EDL) as well as the EPL. The advantage to this...

Today is a bit of a milestone for me, as it is exactly five years since I assumed the role of Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. I had an inkling that this was going to be a different kind of role when a few days before I even started...

Boy, am I on some kind of blog binge this week. It’s amazing how a few weeks without travel helps. Dana Blackenhorn wrote a piece earlier today discussing Matt Asay’s article on why the Apache license is better than the GPL. In his article, he states the following: If your...

We have been having a debate internally at the Eclipse Foundation whether we need to add the LGPLv2 to the list of licenses that Eclipse projects can use or pre-req. Despite what you may think, this is not an straightforward conversation. The most obvious question is why don’t we allow...

I’ve been thinking about posting on this topic for a while, and recent posts by Greg Stein and Eric Raymond have finally motivated me to get off my butt and git ‘er done. As I mentioned recently, the EPL is on a bit of a roll at the moment. And...

Last evening I was in Toronto for the “ Value of Open Source” panel at the University of Toronto’s School of Computer Science. The panel was one of a series being organized by the Free and Open Source Software Learning Center ( FOSSLC). The evening was almost more of a...

As you have probably read by now, this morning Bjorn announced his resignation from the Eclipse Foundation. I know I speak for everyone here at the Foundation and in the broader community that we wish him well wherever his path may take him. Bjorn has made enormous contributions to the...

I wrote this retrospective recently for a Board committee, and Doug Gaff gave me the excellent suggestion that I blog it. I am sure that it is of interest to many in the community. The following is a listing of the 2008 objectives set by the Board for the Foundation...

License proliferation has been a hot topic amongst the open source community for the past couple of years. I am happy to report that the Eclipse Foundation and IBM have collaborated to do our bit to help by superseding the Common Public License (CPL) with the Eclipse Public License (EPL)...