I think his main intention was to keep the traffic up on the Clojure mailing list. It's important for any new(ish) language to have good stats on mailing list traffic, and the decision to use EPL results in regular "why, why, why?" threads.
While we are talking, does anyone know why (contains? [:a :b :c] :b) returns false? Phil <musicdenotat...@gmail.com> writes: > To Rich Hickey: > Why did you choose the Eclipse Public License for Clojure? > 1. How did you make your license selection? > 2. What advantages does the EPL have over other free/open-source software > licenses such as GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, at least for the Clojure > project? > > -- -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE1 7RU -- -- 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.
