As James said, you've misunderstood the rationale. It's also worth pointing out that a lot of US companies won't use GPL-licensed software (and won't pay for a closed source version), and many aren't comfortable with LGPL either. EPL, Apache and others are more acceptable to many commercial organizations. And, yes, I speak as someone who has had to endure the legal team of a large corporation conducting open source software audits across projects I've worked on.
If you Google for differences between EPL and GPL you'll find several interesting discussions since this seems to crop up for almost every EPL-licensed project... The differences between EPL and LGPL are more subtle but still important. Sean On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Kalinni Gorzkis <[email protected]> wrote: > "I will not be dual licensing with GPL or LGPL. Both licenses allow the > creation of derived works under GPL, a license I cannot use in my > work. Allowing derived works I cannot use is not reciprocal and make > no sense for me." > > 1. First, the license allow proprietary derivative works anyway. > 2. That's also the point of the GPL. It is intended to make any derivative > work available to the author usable to the author. > > Thus, Rich Hickey's choice of the EPL has the same rationale as the GPL. > That violates the principle of free software. License incompatibilities like > this divide the open-source community. Please change. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
