On 28 Aug., 13:42, Tassilo Horn <tass...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > I have a licensing question. Am I allowed to include clojure.jar in a > GPL project?
IANAL, but if I understand the GPL correctly, it prohibits you from distributing a GPL-covered programme that is based on Clojure, because it would need to be linked to the EPL'd Clojure library code and so would make the combination have to be distributed under the GPL, which is impossible. > The reason is that we are thinking about (re)writing some components of > our GPL java project in clojure. Some of them might be core components, > and so we would like to bundle the clojure.jar with the project. Well, if it's _your_ project, obviously no one can stop you from violating your own license. Nobody else will be able to redistribute your work, however. What you can do to improve the situation in this case is to add an exception to the license. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs for details. If you don't own all of the GPL'd code, I think you're out of luck, though. Bye, Matthias --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
