EPL and GPL are not compatible an both directions

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Hello,

just had a look into this interresting project. To my knowledge EPL and 
GPL,AGPL are in both directions not compatible. This means that it is not 
allowed to link GPL,AGPL code against EPL code or the other way around.

I whanted to use it in Eclipse as some code in the project. However, this is 
not legal.

Best, Michael

Original issue reported on code.google.com by metrospi...@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2013 at 3:01

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Hi Michael,

it's some time ago that I tried to wrap my head around this licence 
stuff...crazy world :)
At this time I came to the comclusion that it's possible to write AGPL based 
Eclipse plugins - but I should have documented my findings somewhere. I have to 
do the research again and there where a lot of different opinions about this 
topic.

You are right - it isn't possible to take my code and throw it into an EPL 
project but this is a different topic.

Currently I think this project is not advanced enough to be of real interest to 
other projects. Some steps like the Variable Analysis are simple not ready yet 
and my time is really restricted.

I would like to postpone this licence stuff till I have a version 1.0 and than 
I will reevaluate this licence issues. I just havn't the time and I will not 
simply throw some other licence model (that I also don't really understand, 
even some legal departments have problems with this licence topics) onto the 
code.

Cheers André

Original comment by andrePan...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2013 at 1:13

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Original comment by andrePan...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2013 at 1:14

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