Re: swank-clojure license

2009-01-17 Thread Matt Revelle
On Jan 17, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Stuart Sierra wrote: > > On Dec 31 2008, 5:16 am, lpetit wrote: >> I re-read my original post, and it seems clear to me : I stated I >> wish >> to embed swank-clojure files into clojure-dev plugin. > > I do not see a conflict here, provided you do not modify swank

Re: swank-clojure license

2009-01-17 Thread Stuart Sierra
On Dec 31 2008, 5:16 am, lpetit wrote: > I re-read my original post, and it seems clear to me : I stated I wish > to embed swank-clojure files into clojure-dev plugin. I do not see a conflict here, provided you do not modify swank-clojure and clearly indicate that it is under a separate license.

Re: swank-clojure license

2009-01-17 Thread hughw
On Dec 31 2008, 6:48 am, lpetit wrote: > OOps, I'm losing memory, I answered twice to the e-mail ;-) > > On 31 déc, 11:16, lpetit wrote: > > > Yes, this is what I remember from LGPL. But anyway, swank-clojure is > > not LGPL, it's GPL. I suspect you can't distribute the swank-clojure files w

Re: swank-clojure license

2008-12-31 Thread lpetit
OOps, I'm losing memory, I answered twice to the e-mail ;-) On 31 déc, 11:16, lpetit wrote: > Yes, this is what I remember from LGPL. But anyway, swank-clojure is > not LGPL, it's GPL. > > I re-read my original post, and it seems clear to me : I stated I wish > to embed swank-clojure files into

Re: swank-clojure license

2008-12-31 Thread lpetit
Yes, this is what I remember from LGPL. But anyway, swank-clojure is not LGPL, it's GPL. I re-read my original post, and it seems clear to me : I stated I wish to embed swank-clojure files into clojure-dev plugin. Anyway, I'll rephrase my question differently : Given that : - Clojure-dev's (an

Re: swank-clojure license

2008-12-30 Thread Phil Hagelberg
lpetit writes: > So swank-clojure will not be hard-linked (at compilation time) to any > of clojure-dev code. Nor will it be dynamically linked to any clojure- > dev code at runtime : it will be dynamically linked to the clojure > environment launched by clojure-dev on behalf of the user. > > Bu

Re: swank-clojure license

2008-12-30 Thread lpetit
On 30 déc, 23:55, "Mark H." wrote: > On Dec 30, 10:26 am, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > Actually the LGPL allows linking to the library (somewhat different > than "using the code") from any program, even one which is not under > an open-source license.  "L" used to stand for "library" and the > canoni

Re: swank-clojure license

2008-12-30 Thread Mark H.
On Dec 30, 10:26 am, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > lpetit writes: > > I'm not sure. From what I remember, what you describe is more related > > to LGPL ? > > No, the LGPL allows using the code in another program that is Free but > not GPL-licensed. Actually the LGPL allows linking to the library (som

Re: swank-clojure license

2008-12-30 Thread Phil Hagelberg
lpetit writes: > I'm not sure. From what I remember, what you describe is more related > to LGPL ? No, the LGPL allows using the code in another program that is Free but not GPL-licensed. If you're just distributing some code from swank-clojure, licensing conflicts will never come into play. It

Re: swank-clojure license

2008-12-30 Thread lpetit
I'm not sure. From what I remember, what you describe is more related to LGPL ? On 30 déc, 18:19, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > lpetit writes: > > So I guess that if for clojure-dev (eclipse plugin for clojure) we > > want to use it for interactivity with an external clojure environment, > > and we

Re: swank-clojure license

2008-12-30 Thread Phil Hagelberg
lpetit writes: > So I guess that if for clojure-dev (eclipse plugin for clojure) we > want to use it for interactivity with an external clojure environment, > and we want to start the environment from the plugin, we have a > problem : stop me if I'm wrong, but if any file of swank-clojure is > e

swank-clojure license

2008-12-30 Thread lpetit
Sorry for this e-mail that could be more targeted to Jeffrey Chu, but I was unable to find its direct e-mail address, and I know he is a clojure ml member, so ... It seems that swank-clojure license is a flavor of GPL ("License as distributed with Emacs"). So I guess that if for c