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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080 size=2>In the next few days, I am
going to change Mondrian's license from CPL to EPL. This is a move that is good
for everyone<SPAN class=534285100-16052009>, and now release 3.1 is out it seems
to be a good time.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080 size=2>Mondrian is distributed under
the Common Public License (CPL). It's fairly good license, but there is a clause
regarding what happens in the event of patent litigation, and this this flaw
made some organizations nervous about adopting CPL code. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080 size=2>The Eclipse Public License
(EPL) is based on CPL, and in fact differs only in the name of the sponsoring
organization (Eclipse versus IBM) and the removal of that clause. Everyone
agrees that EPL is a better license, but we were too lazy to go through the
license change process. A few weeks ago, <SPAN class=534285100-16052009>EPL
</SPAN>was officially made the successor to CPL, and that makes it trivial to
upgrade. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans"><FONT color=#000080><FONT size=2>This blog post by
Mike Milinkovich (who heads Eclipse) describes the situation<SPAN
class=534285100-16052009>:</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080><A
href="http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/mike/2009/04/16/one-small-step-towards-reducing-license-proliferation/">http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/mike/2009/04/16/one-small-step-towards-reducing-license-proliferation/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080 size=2>By the way, olap4j was also
under CPL, and we made the same license change a couple of weeks
ago.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080 size=2>I will update the perforce
repository in the next few days, and the next Mondrian release will be under
EPL. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080 size=2>Julian</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=534285100-16052009><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080
size=2>PS I also announced this change as a forum post. To keep the discussion
single-threaded, if you have any comments, please reply to the forum: <FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><A
href="http://forums.pentaho.org/showthread.php?p=214099">http://forums.pentaho.org/showthread.php?p=214099</A>
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