Regarding Clojure's license

2013-11-12 Thread musicdenotation
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? -- -- You received

Re: Regarding Clojure's license

2013-11-12 Thread musicdenotation
My last post: Humorously, Rich Hickey's choice of the EPL reminds me of the GPL. Both licenses (EPL as used in Clojure and GPL as written) are intended to make modifications usable by the original author. However: 1. You can already create proprietary versions of Clojure; 2. Rich avoided the