From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591B0BC6C for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:40:05 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAJMBn0fBMVMQn2dsb2JhbACQHgEBAQEBBgQGCSCfCAE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,270,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="8508373" Received: from minbis.univ-orleans.fr (HELO min.univ-orleans.fr) ([193.49.83.16]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 29 Jan 2008 19:40:04 +0100 Received: from smtps.univ-orleans.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by min.univ-orleans.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BA312B33D; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:40:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.12] (ras75-4-82-235-58-110.fbx.proxad.net [82.235.58.110]) by smtps.univ-orleans.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3016936E5B; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:40:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Suggested Topic - License From: David Teller To: "Grundy, Jim D" Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <5389061B65D50446B1783B97DFDB392D0894F5AE@orsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <5389061B65D50446B1783B97DFDB392D0894F5AE@orsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:40:02 +0100 Message-Id: <1201632002.6250.24.camel@Blefuscu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; univ-orleans:01 wiki:01 cheers:01 ocaml:01 lgpl:01 beginner's:01 ocaml:01 bug:01 univ-orleans:01 lifo:01 liberal:98 liberal:98 liquidations:98 beginners:01 wrote:01 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 > > -- > Jim Grundy, Research Scientist. Intel Corporation, Strategic CAD Labs > Mail Stop RA2-451, 2501 NW 229th Ave, Hillsboro, OR 97124-5503, USA > Phone: +1 971 214-1709 Fax: +1 971 214-1771 > Key Fingerprint: 5F8B 8EEC 9355 839C D777 4D42 404A 492A AEF6 15E2 > > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs > -- David Teller Security of Distributed Systems http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act brings liquidations.