Re: [DotGNU]IDE proposal - Eclipse

[Rhys Weatherley]

Bill Lance wrote:

> > Btw. eclipse is not free, it is open source, but it
> > is not free.
> >
>
> That's rather confusing.  Could you please explain
> this?

It appears to be under the "Common Public License 0.5",
which is an open source approved license:

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl.html

The FSF appears to classify it as a free software license,
but one which is incompatible with the GPL due to the
way in which it handles patent licensing:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

Cheers,

Rhys.