You ask: "I was not sure if the Eclipse license was only for the implementation of the interpreter / compiler, or if it covers the language API itself?"
If you are merely curious, then I don't know the answer. If you have a significant investment of money and/or time depending upon the answer to the question, then you should hire a good intellectual property lawyer familiar with the case law in this area in your jurisdiction, and ask them. Are you asking: If I create an API-compatible implementation of Clojure separately from the original, can I be sued by Clojure's creator, as Google was sued by Oracle? You can try to sue anyone for anything. Will the case be won or lost? I have no idea. See above. Is it likely that Rich Hickey wants to sue people over such a reason? If they call the resulting thing they distribute "Clojure" in the USA, he has a trademark on that name, and might legally block you from using that name, and make you pick a different name. There are other implementations of Clojure, or minor variations, released under different names, and as far as I know Rich Hickey has no interest in suing them. e.g. sci, babashka Andy On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 7:52 AM Nicholas Papadonis < nick.papadonis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was not sure if the Eclipse license was only for the implementation of > the interpreter / compiler, or if it covers the language API itself? > > On Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 10:49:46 AM UTC-4, Hadil Sabbagh wrote: >> >> Clojure is covered by the Eclipse Public License 1.0. >> >> I hope this answers your question. >> >> On May 24, 2020, at 7:32 AM, Nicholas Papadonis <nick.pa...@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 clo...@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 >> clo...@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 clo...@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/aeacb4e3-68bc-4a57-861b-b77bb1b1a584%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/aeacb4e3-68bc-4a57-861b-b77bb1b1a584%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/CAKvLtDYb0XzXJF29qNBL52RatfDA27Nk2O%2BPNzEwpfTGz4sCUA%40mail.gmail.com.
