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 FAA28245; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:06:29 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA28136 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:06:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.davidb.org (adsl-64-172-240-129.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [64.172.240.129]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9P36P8J023487 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:06:27 +0200 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 4.42 #1 (Debian)) id 1CLvBf-0000Tb-Bn; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:06:23 -0700 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:06:23 -0700 From: David Brown To: chr_bauer@nexgo.de Cc: skaller@users.sourceforge.net, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Re: [Caml-list] Announce: Schoca-0.2.3 released Message-ID: <20041025030623.GC1582@old.davidb.org> References: <12179972.1098653443159.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail05.arcor-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <12179972.1098653443159.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail05.arcor-online.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 417C6DB1.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 caml-list:01 2004:99 bauer:01 nexgo:99 gpl'd:01 lgpl:01 lgpl:01 gpl:01 incompatible:01 gpl:01 incompatible:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 0200,:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 Usually the reason another license is incompatible with the GPL is because it contains something more restrictive than the GPL. Dave ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners