There is a widely known case Oracle vs. Google on whether the syntax and
API of Java can be copyrighted or if it falls under fair use. When the
Clojure language specification was released the author became the copyright
holder. I'm assuming the copyright holder is Rich Hickey. Does anyone know
Clojure is covered by the Eclipse Public License 1.0.
I hope this answers your question.
> On May 24, 2020, at 7:32 AM, Nicholas Papadonis
> wrote:
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> There is a widely known case Oracle vs. Google on whether the syntax and API
> of Java can be copyrighted or if it falls under fair use. When
I was not sure if the Eclipse license was only for the implementation of
the interpreter / compiler, or if it covers the language API itself?
On Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 10:49:46 AM UTC-4, Hadil Sabbagh wrote:
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> Clojure is covered by the Eclipse Public License 1.0.
>
> I hope this answers your q
The implementation of Clojure on the JVM, and of ClojureScript, were both
initially written by Rich Hickey, and he released their implementations
under the Eclipse Public License version 1.0. It says so in the first
couple of sentences of the readme here: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/
For C
You ask: "I was not sure if the Eclipse license was only for the
implementation of the interpreter / compiler, or if it covers the language
API itself?"
If you are merely curious, then I don't know the answer.
If you have a significant investment of money and/or time depending upon
the answer to
