> It may have been chosen uncarefully. Other permissive licenses better fulfill Rich Hickey's spirit. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/TuojEIsu1G4 Rich Hickey choose the license himself. While you may disagree whether he made the right choice, it is highly unlikely that Rich did something as important as this, without taking much care as to why he did it. -Zack
On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:48:33 AM UTC-5, Laurent PETIT wrote: > > AFAICT it has been chosen carefully, but you are of course free to > think otherwise > > 2013/9/11 Kalinni Gorzkis <musicde...@gmail.com <javascript:>>: > > 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 clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- 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.
