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[ba-ohs-talk] Eclipse -- open source IDE


http://www.eclipse.org    (01)

"We finally made it! Eclipse is now an open source project! Thanks to 
everyone in the Eclipse community who supported us and worked so hard to 
get us this far. If you are just now joining us, Eclipse is a kind of 
universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything but nothing 
in particular. The real value comes from tool plug-ins that "teach" Eclipse 
how to work with things - java files, web content, graphics, video - almost 
anything you can imagine. Eclipse allows you to independently develop tools 
that integrate with other people's tools so seamlessly you won't know where 
one tool ends and another starts. The very notion of a tool as we know 
it... disappears completely... "    (02)

It's Java, it's licensed by the Common Public License (CPL). It's also a 
huge download.    (03)

Here is  part of the CPL (notice how it handles patents):    (04)

"a) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, each Contributor hereby grants 
Recipient a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to 
reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, 
distribute and sublicense the Contribution of such Contributor, if any, and 
such derivative works, in source code and object code form.
b) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, each Contributor hereby grants 
Recipient a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under 
Licensed Patents to make, use, sell, offer to sell, import and otherwise 
transfer the Contribution of such Contributor, if any, in source code and 
object code form. This patent license shall apply to the combination of the 
Contribution and the Program if, at the time the Contribution is added by 
the Contributor, such addition of the Contribution causes such combination 
to be covered by the Licensed Patents. The patent license shall not apply 
to any other combinations which include the Contribution. No hardware per 
se is licensed hereunder.
c) Recipient understands that although each Contributor grants the licenses 
to its Contributions set forth herein, no assurances are provided by any 
Contributor that the Program does not infringe the patent or other 
intellectual property rights of any other entity. Each Contributor 
disclaims any liability to Recipient for claims brought by any other entity 
based on infringement of intellectual property rights or otherwise. As a 
condition to exercising the rights and licenses granted hereunder, each 
Recipient hereby assumes sole responsibility to secure any other 
intellectual property rights needed, if any. For example, if a third party 
patent license is required to allow Recipient to distribute the Program, it 
is Recipient's responsibility to acquire that license before distributing 
the Program.
d) Each Contributor represents that to its knowledge it has sufficient 
copyright rights in its Contribution, if any, to grant the copyright 
license set forth in this Agreement."    (05)