The GPL incompatibility comes from the choice of law clauses I think. It is worth mentioning though, that you can combine GPL code and Clojure, since GPL has an exception for a "standard interface" of a programming language. You can write GPL code in most languages, and this does not require that the language and its standard library be GPL because the strong copyleft does not percolate to the standard library.
So, the choice of EPL for clojure itself has little effect wrt GPL. Unfortunately, this is not true for third party libraries which are not "standard", and many of these are EPL. The "evil" requirement of GPL is independent of commercial use restrictrions; so your implication that GPL prevents this is wrong. Phil Kalinni Gorzkis <musicdenotat...@gmail.com> writes: > While the EPL doesn't have the evil "copyleft" requirement of GPL, and > therefore allows and encourages commercial uses of the code, it has a > requirement that makes it incompatible with the GPL: If you create modified > versions of EPL-covered software, you must slap your name (or any other > identity) on it. In my humble opinion, this restriction isn't justified. (All, > or most, creators of modified versions will do that anyway). It may have been > chosen uncarefully. Other permissive licenses better fulfill Rich Hickey's > spirit. > > -- -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE1 7RU -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
