From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4E0BC6D for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:31:21 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAG8LoEfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACCNo1xAQEBCAopnyQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,277,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="21978082" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2008 14:31:21 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m0UDVK9L029678 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:31:20 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuE6AKcKoEfUnw6GW2dsb2JhbACCNo1nFQoGCBQHnyU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,277,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="8536982" Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net ([212.159.14.134]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2008 14:31:19 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JKD27-0004oG-4K for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:31:19 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Relicensing OCaml Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:26:04 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801301326.04506.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: a1e91e11f460428d4129889304096533 X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47A07C28.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 redistribute:01 ocaml:01 lgpl:01 frog:98 caml:02 patches:03 bsd:04 consortium:05 consortium:05 quite:08 backward:08 core:09 distribution:10 ltd:87 I just ploughed through the CAML Consortium legal document to find out what a consortium member can do and was quite surprised to find (p. 13) that they are able to redistribute under any license of their choosing. So any of the Consortium members can simply republish the core OCaml distribution under LGPL, BSD or whatever and then we can get on with improving it and not having to worry about patches and backward compatibility... :-) -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e