I've often wondered about this. This restriction seems to mean that any GPL Clojure library can only ever be for private use. There are a few examples out there, and this would seem to apply to LightTable as well, since it's GPL but uses a lot of EPL code. How do they get around this?
With straight Clojure it's probably not such an issue since most of the libs are EPL anyway, but there are a fair number of GPL Java libs that people might want to use - I'm not sure what the norm is in the Javascript world for interop with cljs. On 11 May 2014 06:00, Jozef Wagner <jozef.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you want to distribute binaries (.class files) of the program B? If > not, you may license your sources in any license you want. If yes, then it > will be possible only if the library G has a linking exception in its > license [1], as the clojure itself is EPL so it does not matter how the > library A is licensed. Without linking exception you cannot distribute the > combined work from EPL and GPL sources [2] [3]. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception > [2] https://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#GPLCOMPATIBLE > [3] http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/epl-gpl-commentary/ > > Jozef > > > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Gunnar Völkel < > gunnar.voel...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> I have written a Clojure library A which is licensed under Eclipse Public >> License (EPL) as usual which depends on other Clojure libraries with EPL >> license. >> In a different program B I use library A and another library G which is >> licensed under GPLv3. >> >> Now, the question arises which license I am allowed to use (or even must >> use) for program B. >> >> As far as I have read it is not possible to license B under EPL because >> library G is licensed under GPLv3. >> Leaving the only option to license program B under GPLv3 - does that >> sound correct to you? >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
