> Is it still the case that > "the legal situation is that commercial > exploitation of Eclipse currently is exclusive to our start-up > company Parc Technologies" ? Yes, that is still the case. Parc Technologies now finances most of the work on Eclipse and has the commercial rights. At the same time, we continue to make the full functionality and the latest developments available to academia, and we will continue to do that. As you can imagine, we have repeatedly discussed whether to make commercial versions available, but so far the conclusion has always been that there is unfortunately not enough demand to make this a sustainable business model for our company. > > Is there a way for me to release a commercial application > that uses Eclipse? Not unless your customer himself qualifies for an academic Eclipse licence. > Or should I be looking for an alternative straightaway? > > It would only be very kind of you suggest an alternative... That depends very much on your application. For the kind of projects we are doing here, we don't think there are good alternatives that provide the necessary flexibility, that's why we keep working on Eclipse... But if you have an application that uses a clearly circumscribed subset of Eclipse functionality (e.g. just fd solver), then you may be in a better position. -- Joachim Schimpf / phone: +44 20 7594 8187 IC-Parc, Imperial College / mailto:J.Schimpf@ic.ac.uk London SW7 2AZ, UK / http://www.icparc.ic.ac.uk/eclipseReceived on Tue Apr 24 21:49:15 2001
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