Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] http://www.eclipse.org/cobol/

[Fred M. <fr...@mo...>]

Hudson Reis wrote:
>  
> > RE: [Tiny-cobol-users] Bugs in DISPLAYIs anyone considering adapting tinycobol to use a free IDE?
> 
> Adapting? I don't understand your question. An IDE is a IDE. A compiler is a compiler... I don't see changes to use any IDE. I'm wrong?
> 
> > Fujitsu Cobol ported their compiler to Linux and are using eclipse.  See  http://www.eclipse.org/cobol/   and www.adtools.com for details.
> 
> I look this and a detail invited my attention. Look below:
> 
> License
> This project is licensed under the Common Public License.
> 
> What license is this? is GPL?

It is not GNU GPL. I found the text at
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html and, because I am not a
lawyer, I cannot comment on it. However, the Common Public License
Version 1.0 is approved by the Open Source Initiative, see
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/.

On the GNU website you can find at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html :

Common Public License Version 1.0 

This is a free software license but it is incompatible with the GPL. 

The Common Public License is incompatible with the GPL because it has
various specific requirements that are not in the GPL. 

For example, it requires certain patent licenses be given that the GPL
does not require. (We don't think those patent license requirements are
inherently a bad idea, but nonetheless they are incompatible with the
GNU GPL.)

Regards,

Fred
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