The Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative have approved the license terms of the CPL.
The Eclipse Public License (EPL) consists of a slightly modified version of the CPL.
The CPL has some terms that resemble those of the GNU General Public License (GPL), but some key differences exist.
CPL, like the GNU Lesser General Public License, allows non-CPL-licensed software to link to a library under CPL without requiring the linked source code to be made available to the licensee.
[4] Open Source Initiative therefore lists the Common Public License as deprecated and superseded by EPL.