From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: caml-list@davidb.org
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announce: Schoca-0.2.3 released
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:38:34 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041025.123834.26988978.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041025025832.GA1582@old.davidb.org>
From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:29:59AM +1000, skaller wrote:
>
> > It would be useful when making an anouncement if you could
> > specify the licence. This saves wasting time.
> >
> > On the home page it says:
> >
> > "This software is free for free software. It is released under the GPL."
> >
> > Hmm. So if I link it against the Ocaml standard libraries,
> > they have to be GPL'd too. But they're not ..
>
> What??? I know your distaste for the GPL, but there is no incompatibility
> between the Ocaml standard libraries and a GPL'd program. The Ocaml
> libraries are LGPL with a special exception that lets you build executibles
> using them, unrestricted.
I was going to make the same answer...
However, when releasing libraries for ocaml, it may be useful to
remember that while ocaml's runtime and libraries are
LGPL(+exception), the compiler, and as a result the toplevel, is QPL,
and that the QPL happens to be incompatible with the GPL.
In practice, this means that you cannot distribute a toplevel
including a GPL library.
On the other hand, there should be no problem loading manually a
GPL library in the toplevel, or building such a toplevel privately.
(At least I believe so, but questions of dynamic loading are the
muddiest part of the GPL and the QPL.)
Jacques Garrigue
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-24 9:03 Christoph Bauer
2004-10-24 18:29 ` skaller
2004-10-25 2:58 ` David Brown
2004-10-25 3:38 ` Jacques Garrigue [this message]
2004-10-25 5:01 ` David Brown
2004-10-25 6:08 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-10-25 6:40 ` skaller
2004-10-25 8:00 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-10-25 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-25 15:15 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2004-10-25 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-25 14:42 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2004-10-25 15:52 ` David Brown
2004-10-25 18:10 ` Hartmann Schaffer
2004-10-25 5:56 ` [Caml-list] licence stuff again skaller
2004-10-25 5:18 ` [Caml-list] Announce: Schoca-0.2.3 released skaller
2004-10-25 5:29 ` David Brown
2004-10-25 6:07 ` skaller
2004-10-27 14:42 ` Sven Luther
2004-10-27 14:40 ` Sven Luther
2004-10-27 16:04 ` skaller
2004-10-27 17:46 ` David Brown
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