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Re licensing theia ide vscode builtin extensions

Marc Dumais edited this page Nov 5, 2020 · 5 revisions

Re-licensing theia-ide/vscode-builtin-extensions

Motivation

The Theia framework is an Eclipse Foundation project. We believe that it would be beneficial to move, under the Eclipse Foundation, some of the peripheral repos that have grown under the theia-ide GH organization, that are related to Theia. Among these is theia-ide/vscode-builtin-extensions:

License: none stated, so relicensing of the repo to the same License as Eclipse Theia will be necessary.

contributors

A raw list of all contributors to the repo can be obtained, running the following command on the latest master branch of the repo:

git shortlog -sne

As of 2020-10-05, this is what we get:

$ git shortlog -sne
    19  Anton Kosyakov <anton.kosyakov@typefox.io>
    11  Marc Dumais <marc.dumais@ericsson.com>
     2  Marc Dumais <marcdumais-work@users.noreply.github.com>
     1  Sven Efftinge <sven.efftinge@typefox.io>
     1  Vincent Fugnitto <vincent.fugnitto@ericsson.com>

Contributors from TypeFox, Ericsson

We assume that the copyright of work done by people employed by TypeFox and Ericsson is owned by the respective company. As copyright owners, these companies need to approve the re-licensing.

Ericsson:

Typefox:

Obtaining permission to re-license contributions

For this repo, all contributions came from TypeFox and Ericsson. We will try to get approval from the proper authorities within these companies.

Permission obtained:

  • TypeFox: permission for all contribution made in its name
  • Ericsson: permission for all contribution made in its name

Permissions obtained, we done here!