Meikel, the situation is certainly not as bad as you think. What the "USEINANOTHER" url link states (as far as I understand) is for people for take the source coce, and RELICENSE it, changing the header and pretending that from the fork point it can be handled by another license. This indeed seems like the violation of the copyright where you would then act as the original author which is the sole person allowed to change the license (and I think it is true for almost any license that includes a copyright, not just for the EPL).
So when you just use clojure as a lib to which you link code, there's no problem (as far as the EPL is concerned, maybe its' a problem for the GPL, that I don't know for sure, but it seems it is). But maybe I'm wrong, and it is not possible to say that different parts of a project can have different licenses, ... HT(a little bit)H, -- Laurent 2009/8/29 Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> > Hi, > > Am 29.08.2009 um 00:58 schrieb Daniel Renfer: > > perhaps this link in the FAQ for the EPL will clear things up. >> >> http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#USEINANOTHER >> > > Wow! All but one of my Clojure projects are illegal! (They are all MIT > licensed...) > > But I hope, that this link doesn't apply. I barely know the situation in > Germany. Let alone somewhere else in the world. For example in Germany: > * public domain *meeep* you can't give up your copyright (in particular you > can't sell it to a company) > * no warranty *meeep* not here, you let it out in the wild, you can be held > liable for it in certain situations, especially distributors (read: SuSE) > should be very careful [1] > > But IANAL. so, how do I have interpret the contents of the FAQ link? Does > this refer to eg. ripping out Clojure's STM, modifying it and using it in > another program? Or does this refer to use an unmodified Clojure as a > library? > > Sincerely > Meikel > > [1]: http://www.ifross.de/ifross_html/art3.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
