From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id FAA01603; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 05:31:07 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA32696 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 05:31:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fA94V5n28780 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 05:31:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (patrick@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fA94Uud73806 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:30:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from patrick@watson.org) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:30:56 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick M Doane To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml Message-ID: <20011108232434.Y73712-100000@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Earlier this year there was a discussion about the problems of using LGPL for the OCaml run-time system and associated libraries. It was suggested that some of the constraints in the LGPL were not intended. To quote a page from the Caml website: "The LGPL puts no restrictions at all on programs linked with LGPL-ed libraries. Thus, users are free to distribute (or not) OCaml-generated binaries under whatever conditions they like." >>From my reading of the LGPL, which seems to correspond with the opinions of others on the list, this just isn't true. If I develop an application with OCaml, I must distribute that application with source code. This isn't acceptable for commercial development and I'd really hope that the intention is for OCaml to be used outside of academia. Will this problem be fixed for the 3.03 release? Patrick ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr