Elliott Slaughter <elliottslaugh...@gmail.com> writes: Hi Elliotts,
> 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. It still holds. And telling your users to download the clojure.jar doesn't change anything. The problem is not distributing something with a GPL-incompatible license, but that simply using clojure and the stdlibs makes it a derivated work. (I was in the same situation like you and dropped a mail at the FSF licensing crew.) But there's a way to fix that issue. Here's the relevant part of the FSF's reply: ,---- | Yes. You need to add an "additional permission" aka "special | exception" to your use of the GPL. See | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs. | | This would be true whther you distribute the Clojure code or not. | | On #gnu I got the tip that GPL code may depend on GPL-incompatible | "system libraries". The Clojure compiler and the standard library | can be seen as such, but still the question remains if | distributing them together is ok... | | The fact that you feel the need to include clojure in your | distribution is pretty good evidence that they are not system | libraries. In general, system libraries can be expected to be | installed with the system. `---- HTH, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
