On Nov 4, 1:35 pm, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So far, you are only the third person to complain about lack of GPL > compatibility.
For the sake of balance, I _am_ actually concerned about the CPL because it effectively denies developers the freedom to be politically unneutral. Let's say I want to write a library that may only be used by free software, out of political reasons. (That should be okay, right? It's my code, after all.) The natural license choice in this case is the GPL, which is widely used and makes my new library compatible with all the other GPL-compatibly licensed stuff out there. The CPL doesn't allow me to choose the GPL. Instead, it forces me to apply a CPL-compatible, GPL-like license -- a thing which may or may not currently exist, but which will certainly make my library useless to almost everybody because without GPL compatibility, it in turn forces a non-GPL-compatible license onto my library's users, who will probably want to make use of GPL-licensed libraries as well as mine. If it was only about Clojure, it wouldn't be so bad, since because of the license conflict, there can't be any GPL-licensed Clojure libraries out there. But it's not just Clojure -- it's about all of the Java ecosystem. That's also why your suggestion to ask the authors of a GPL'd library to LGPL it seems to me a bit unrealistic. After all, the authors probably released the library under the GPL out of political reasons, so they're unlikely to hamper their political motives by changing the license. Therefore, by choosing the CPL, you're making a political statement against a sizable part of the Free Software movement. This ought not to be done without thorough consideration, I think. Matthias P.S. English is not my native language, and as far as I can tell, this is a highly sensitive issue. I sincerely hope I could get my point across without insulting anyone by choosing the wrong words. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
