OOps, I'm losing memory, I answered twice to the e-mail ;-)
On 31 déc, 11:16, lpetit <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, this is what I remember from LGPL. But anyway, swank-clojure is
> not LGPL, it's GPL.
>
> I re-read my original post, and it seems clear to me : I stated I wish
> to embed swank-clojure files into clojure-dev plugin.
>
> Anyway, I'll rephrase my question differently :
>
> Given that :
> - Clojure-dev's (an eclipse plugin I'm a contributor of) license is
> EPL.
> - swank-clojure's license is GPL
>
> Can the following be possible without breaking the GPL ? :
> - Embed swank-clojure source code in clojure-dev's source management
> system (svn)
> - Release clojure-dev as an eclipse plugin (that is a jar with clojure-
> dev classes, swank-clojure files)
> Precisions :
> - There will be no compile-time linkage between clojure-dev code and
> swank-clojure code.
> - Clojure-dev will have a new functionality given the user the ability
> to start (from its eclipse environment) a new java/clojure environment
> (in a fresh JVM) that will load swank-clojure (from the files
> distributed with clojure-dev plugin) at startup
> - Then clojure-dev will be able to communicate with the clojure
> environment running in the fresh JVM via swank-clojure remote calls
>
> Maybe this is a no problem.
>
> Thanks in advance to anybody that will demonstrate it's feasible or
> it's not feasible,
>
> --
> Laurent
>
> On 30 déc, 23:55, "Mark H." <mark.hoem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 30, 10:26 am, Phil Hagelberg <technoma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > lpetit <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > I'm not sure. From what I remember, what you describe is more related
> > > > to LGPL ?
>
> > > No, the LGPL allows using the code in another program that is Free but
> > > not GPL-licensed.
>
> > Actually the LGPL allows linking to the library (somewhat different
> > than "using the code") from any program, even one which is not under
> > an open-source license. "L" used to stand for "library" and the
> > canonical example of a LGPL library is GNU's libc: any program can
> > link to it, and such linkage doesn't make the program have the same
> > license as libc.
>
> > mfh
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