The implementation of Clojure on the JVM, and of ClojureScript, were both initially written by Rich Hickey, and he released their implementations under the Eclipse Public License version 1.0. It says so in the first couple of sentences of the readme here: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/
For ClojureScript, it says so in the last few sentences of the ClojureScript README here: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript All contributions by others since then have been under a contributor's agreement that assigns joint copyright of those contributions to Rich Hickey, and the author, and all later versions have been released under the same EPL v1.0 license. You can see the contributor agreement here: https://clojure.org/dev/contributor_agreement That covers the implementation of Clojure and ClojureScript. You mention a "Clojure language specification". There is no separate specification of the Clojure language, other than its implementation and documentation published on clojure.org. Andy On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 7:45 AM Nicholas Papadonis < nick.papadonis...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a widely known case Oracle vs. Google on whether the syntax and > API of Java can be copyrighted or if it falls under fair use. When the > Clojure language specification was released the author became the copyright > holder. I'm assuming the copyright holder is Rich Hickey. Does anyone > know if the copyright holder provided any license or copyright assignment > that allowed others to legally use of the language? If not, has the > copyright holder considered providing such device (MIT, Apache, GPL, etc)? > > I ask because C and C++ assigned it's copyright to the ISO standards > committee which makes the copyright free for all to use. Interested in > Clojure's status. > > Thanks, > Nick > > -- > 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 > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/c393de63-f219-49fe-99fe-f5ba1b32ded0%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/c393de63-f219-49fe-99fe-f5ba1b32ded0%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/CAKvLtDbhkG%3D97xkhnvPQhgb8RHzwQz1d%3DdjWZ%3Di_2GuArt3OJA%40mail.gmail.com.