From: Dave Berry <daveb@harlequin.co.uk>
To: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>, bpr@best.com (Brian Rogoff)
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: licence issues
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:24:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990420102452.009b5ec0@mailhost.ed.harlequin.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199904191753.TAA26061@pauillac.inria.fr>
At 19:53 19/04/99 +0200, Pierre Weis wrote:
>You are right, but you know, nowadays, it's a kind of a religious war:
>you must have been baptized under the GPL to be declared a ``free''
>man (sorry, I meant software).
I find the most useful definition is not "free software", but "Open Source
software". This has a broader definition than just GNU. If you look at
http://www.opensource.org/osd.html, you'll see both the accepted definition
of "Open Source", and links to several example licenses. This is the
definition used by Linux distributors, which gives some practical incentive
to adopt an Open Source licence.
It is, of course, up to you whether you want to make O'Caml "Open Source",
in this sense.
(My apologies if you already know this).
Dave.
Languages Group Manager.
Harlequin Ltd., Lismore House, 127 George St, Edinburgh, EH2 4JN, UK.
Tel: +44 131 240 6106.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-21 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-16 9:54 Markus Mottl
1999-04-16 16:40 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-04-19 11:56 ` William Chesters
1999-04-20 8:23 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-04-21 19:16 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-21 20:08 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-04-21 21:12 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-23 9:29 ` Sven LUTHER
1999-04-22 6:40 ` Sven LUTHER
1999-04-19 13:22 ` Sven LUTHER
1999-04-16 16:41 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-19 11:55 ` Michel Mauny
1999-04-19 17:53 ` Pierre Weis
1999-04-20 9:24 ` Dave Berry [this message]
1999-04-22 6:43 ` Sven LUTHER
1999-04-22 9:20 ` Dave Berry
1999-04-21 9:38 ` Sven LUTHER
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