Re: [Caml-list] Caml-get 0.1

[Maxence Guesdon <maxence.guesdon@inria.fr>]

On 22 Jan 2004 00:59:51 +1100
skaller <skaller@tpg.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 21:12, Maxence Guesdon wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:37:30 +0200
> > > I guess licensing is for people to worry about, not programs :)
> > 
> > But providing an easy way to indicate the license is important, I think,
> > -> the @license tag I want to add.
> 
> Some licences .. most licences unfortunately ..
> create problems for such fine granularity.
> Technically to 'element-get' a single element 
> which is a 3 line function .. you'd have to include
> the whole licence blurb of 60 lines or whatever.
> 
> In interscript (my literate progamming/packaging system),
> I created some mechanism in which a single copy of each 
> required licence could be shipped with a package..
> but the licences were never included in the actual sources.
> [The typeset output contained a link to the file for html,
> or a reference for latex, etc ..).
> 
> Anyhow, when you 'element-get' an element, you probably
> have to ensure the element is
> 
> (a) at least tagged in the fragment source with the licence name
> (b) a copy of the required notice is fetched as well
> 
> .. even if the whole notice isn't included with each element.

That's what I was thinking about: the mandatory license tag could
take an url and the license would be retrieved from that url when
the caml-get archive is retrieved. If a license could not be
retrieved (because of a wrong url for example), the element would
not be available in the client repository.

- Maxence

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