perhaps this link in the FAQ for the EPL will clear things up. http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#USEINANOTHER
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Tassilo Horn<tass...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > > Matthias Benkard <mulkiat...@gmail.com> writes: > > Hi Matthias, > >> 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. > > Yes, that's my impression, too. Does it make a difference not to > distribute the clojure.jar with the GPL project, but to add "you have to > dowload clojure.jar and place it in the lib/ dir" to the README? > >> 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. > > That looks practical. > >> If you don't own all of the GPL'd code, I think you're out of luck, >> though. > > Well, the exception would only to be added to the code that requires > clojure. IMHO, this is only the code written in clojure itself, and > that would all be written from scratch. So here the copyright holders > are available. > > Bye, > Tassilo > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
