Give permission for an MIT licensed derived work or switch license to MIT?

[bldrvnlw]

Dear anomal,

I wish to use rainbowvis-js in a work (a website and a toolkit to be released later) that will be released under BSD or MIT license. According to the Eclipse License page "Does the EPL allow me to ... include all or part of it in another program licensed under (BSD) license or other Open Source license" this is not possible without your permission. Could you please contact me at my work address [b (dot) van (underscore) lew (at) lumc (dot) nl] to discuss this? Alternatively would you consider changing to a BSD or MIT or Apache license?

Some background info: The website and toolkit are use for displaying very large interactive scatter plots (in a bioscience context) in a browser and linking them to choropleths.

Regards
Baldur

[anomal]

I sent you an email, but according to the EPL FAQ:

I‘m a programmer not a lawyer, can you give me a clear cut example of when something is or is not a derivative work?
If you have made a copy of existing Eclipse code and made a few minor revisions to it, that is a derivative work. If you"ve written your own Eclipse plug-in with 100% your own code to implement functionality not currently in Eclipse, then it is not a derivative work. Scenarios between those two extremes will require you to seek the advice of your own legal counsel in deciding whether your program constitutes a derivative work.

For clarity, merely interfacing or interoperating with Eclipse plug-in APIs (without modification) does not make an Eclipse plug-in a derivative work.

(Italics mine)