From: David Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>
To: "Grundy, Jim D" <jim.d.grundy@intel.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Suggested Topic - License
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:40:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201632002.6250.24.camel@Blefuscu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5389061B65D50446B1783B97DFDB392D0894F5AE@orsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>
Do you wish to create a page on the OSR wiki on this subject ?
Cheers,
David
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 10:17 -0800, Grundy, Jim D wrote:
> One issue to be considered in a an external library standardization
> process is the license under which libraries accepted to the standard
> are made available.
>
> The obvious choice here is the same license as the OCaml standard
> libraries themselves (LGPL V2 + linking exception). Except that this
> isn't quite the same as the libraries distributed by INRIA. For those
> libraries companies have the option of joining the Caml Consortium, in
> which case they may license the standard libraries under a more liberal
> (for my intended meaning of the word) 4-clause BSD-like license, which
> is probably more appealing to many corporations. For example, you may
> wish to consider if you would like ported versions of the libraries
> released with F# and how the choice of license might make that possible
> or not. It may be worth investigating simply adopting a more liberal
> (again, for my intended meaning of the word) BSD-like (3 clause version
> perhaps) to spur wider corporate adoption of the proposed standard.
>
> Just something to think about.
>
> Jim
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-29 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-29 18:17 Grundy, Jim D
2008-01-29 18:40 ` David Teller [this message]
2008-01-29 19:26 ` [Caml-list] " Eric Cooper
2008-01-29 19:28 ` Edgar Friendly
2008-01-30 1:01 ` Jim Miller
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