Perhaps a more productive way to approach this issue would have been to ask if the group could point you to a discussion of why Clojure is under the EPL instead of starting from a point of criticism, and challenging the care with which the license was selected?
Searching the archives would have turned up some _long_ threads about this where it would have been clear that the license is not going to change - as well as explaining why it is the way it is. For example: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/bpnKr88rvt8 (from 2008) Sean On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Kalinni Gorzkis <musicdenotat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that Clojure should switch to a better license with similar spirit > like Apache 2.0, BSD, or MIT. > 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. > > -- > -- > 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. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- -- 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.
