lpetit <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> writes:

> So I guess that if for clojure-dev (eclipse plugin for clojure) we
> want to use it for interactivity with an external clojure environment,
> and we want to start the environment from the plugin, we have a
> problem : stop me if I'm wrong, but if any file of swank-clojure is
> embedded in clojure-dev plugin, then the license of clojure-dev must
> be GPL-compatible (and clojure-dev follows clojure convention and is
> currently EPL licensed).
>
> What other options could I have ? (except the one of not using swank-
> clojure, of course :-)

You could ask the Eclipse devs to dual-license. =)

I'm not too well-versed in legal lore, but as I understand it, the
compatibility issues come into play if you're creating a "derived
work". It doesn't matter if GPL-licensed files are *distributed* with
clojure-dev; it just matters if they are part of the same program.

-Phil

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