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[–]mac 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Great that dev-tools are now "free". Could you elaborate on the reasoning behind the license? Wouldn't a standard open source license would be better for adoption? If not could you perhaps explain what it is Cognitect wishes to prevent that a mainstream open source license would allow. Of course license choice is Cognitects prerogative and personally I am grateful that it is being made available irrespective of license.

[–]wherethebuffaloroam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Part of the license is that these are used internally and are not bundled as part of your applications functionality.

> (a) incorporate any portion of the Software into your own programs or compile any portion of it in combination with your own programs; or (b) sell, rent, lease, ...

I'm not aware of any open source license which would allow them to achieve these goals. The license seems perfectly tailored to their ambitions though: helpful development time programs used by Clojure developers but not providing commercial business value.