These are all very good questions, but they are legal questions, not technical questions, let alone Clojure questions.
The sad thing is that it really is not possible to give you a definite answer to your questions. Opinions differ. The answer might depend on the governing law of the jurisdiction.s There have been almost no court decisions and, even if they were, court decisions are not always binding on judges in other cases, at least not in other jurisdictions. My practical advice would be not to worry about this too much. Just consider the risks. What could happen if it turns out that you, inadvertently, violate the terms and conditions of the license of some library just by your system? First, the copyright owner will have to make an issue out of this. You will then have an opportunity to comply by either removing the library from your distribution or negotiating a deal with the copyright owner. If he or she owns the whole library, you may be able to obtain permission to use the library on other terms. If you're business depends on this software or these risks seem high for some other reason, you probably should consult a copyright lawyer. -Tom Gordon On Oct 10, 4:42 am, Elliott Slaughter <elliottslaugh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to figure out whether I can use GPL'd libraries in my > Clojure project or not. > > Am I allowed to distribute unmodified copies of clojure.jar in my MIT > (or other liberally licensed) project? > > Am I allowed to distribute and use unmodified copies of GPL'd libs as > jars? I've been told that dynamic linking against GPL libs in C counts > somehow as derivative work. But I don't know how valid this > interpretation is, and whether it applies to Java/Clojure or not. > > If instead my project was licensed under EPL or GPL, how would it > change the answers to the above questions? > > Asking users to download their own copies of said jars is not really a > good option for me, because this is intended to be a user facing > application, and I don't expect my users to even know what a jar is. > > Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
