Re: [q-lang-users] License of Q programs

[Peter M. <pet...@wa...>]

Albert Graef wrote:
> Peter Minten wrote:
>> I'm working on a library to turn Q into an Erlang node which will allow 
>> it to communicate with Erlang and other Q programs.
> 
> That sounds great.
> 
>> The problem is that the GPL and the Erlang Public License seem to be 
>> incompatible. And any Q program or any program that uses the external 
>> libq interface must be GPLed as they link to the base lib or the 
>> external interface which are GPLed (without a linking exception).
> 
> That question was bound to come up sooner or later...
> 
>> I wanted to ask if this is indeed the intended behaviour.
> 
> Not really. I think that it shouldn't be too difficult to freely use Q
> in other open source projects (i.e., projects under some OSI-approved
> license, is that the case with Erlang?). But IANAL so any advice is
> appreciated. What I do know is that it's hard to augment the GPL with
> special clauses without rendering the whole license invalid. So what do
> other, similar projects do to handle this situation?

As I understand the Erlang Public License is basically a Mozilla Public 
License adapted for Swedish law. So it's open source.

Greetings,

Peter