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* Aw: Re: [Caml-list] Announce: Schoca-0.2.3 released
@ 2004-10-24 21:30 chr_bauer
  2004-10-25  3:06 ` David Brown
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: chr_bauer @ 2004-10-24 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: skaller; +Cc: caml-list


> Hmm. So if I link it against the Ocaml standard libraries,
> they have to be GPL'd too. But they're not ..

from ocaml/LICENSE:

[...]
The Library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General
Public License version 2 (included below).
[...] (LGPL)
3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library. 

Sorry, I don't understand the problem.

Regards,
Christoph Bauer


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* Re: Re: [Caml-list] Announce: Schoca-0.2.3 released
  2004-10-24 21:30 Aw: Re: [Caml-list] Announce: Schoca-0.2.3 released chr_bauer
@ 2004-10-25  3:06 ` David Brown
  2004-10-25  5:36   ` skaller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Brown @ 2004-10-25  3:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: chr_bauer; +Cc: skaller, caml-list

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:30:43PM +0200, chr_bauer@nexgo.de wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. So if I link it against the Ocaml standard libraries,
> > they have to be GPL'd too. But they're not ..
> 
> from ocaml/LICENSE:
> 
> [...]
> The Library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General
> Public License version 2 (included below).
> [...] (LGPL)
> 3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
> License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library. 
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand the problem.

And, you don't even have to make this exception to use a LGPL library with
a GPL program.  You can also include libraries using many other licenses as
well.  The FSF has a fairly exhaustive list of licenses that are both
compatible and incompatible with the GPL.  Their site seems to be down
right now, so I can't grab a URL, but it isn't that difficult to find from
<http://www.fsf.org/>

Usually the reason another license is incompatible with the GPL is because
it contains something more restrictive than the GPL.

Dave

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* Re: Re: [Caml-list] Announce: Schoca-0.2.3 released
  2004-10-25  3:06 ` David Brown
@ 2004-10-25  5:36   ` skaller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: skaller @ 2004-10-25  5:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Brown; +Cc: chr_bauer, caml-list

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 13:06, David Brown wrote:

> 
> Usually the reason another license is incompatible with the GPL is because
> it contains something more restrictive than the GPL.

I believed that myself for a while, but it may not be so:
someone suggested you can't simple 'add' licences
together -- perhaps they're discriminated unions
like Ocaml variants, not undiscrimanted ones like C unions :)

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