I would love to use Shen, but I refuse. Clojure's license is restrictive enough (I can't write GPL projects in it). But Shen isn't even free software by any definition.
In order to package a Clojure project, I have to include clojure.jar which is an EPL licensed project, incompatible with the GPL. If I write my code in Clojure, but license it under the GPL, then that forces me to not package clojure.jar with it, making the installation process a huge pain.
I'm pretty sure that isn't a surety. See the accepted answer here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11412160/java-libraries-... for instance. LGPL, in any case, would almost certainly be okay. Most people I talk to consider .jar's a dynamic link and dynamic links okay via the GPL but there are alternative interpretations and I don't think it has been tested one way or another in the courts.
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I would love to use Shen, but I refuse. Clojure's license is restrictive enough (I can't write GPL projects in it). But Shen isn't even free software by any definition.
Uhm. Can you provide some pointers for 'Cannot write GPL projects in Clojure'? That's .. new to me.
In order to package a Clojure project, I have to include clojure.jar which is an EPL licensed project, incompatible with the GPL. If I write my code in Clojure, but license it under the GPL, then that forces me to not package clojure.jar with it, making the installation process a huge pain.
I'm pretty sure that isn't a surety. See the accepted answer here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11412160/java-libraries-... for instance. LGPL, in any case, would almost certainly be okay. Most people I talk to consider .jar's a dynamic link and dynamic links okay via the GPL but there are alternative interpretations and I don't think it has been tested one way or another in the courts.
To the best of my knowledge you can make GPL clojure code, and include clojure.jar too.
http://osdir.com/ml/clojure/2010-03/msg01337.html