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 KAA21786; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:29:43 +0100 (MET) 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 KAA21788 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:29:42 +0100 (MET) Received: from gwsmtp.thomson-csf.com (gwsmtp.thomson-csf.com [195.101.39.226]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fAT9TdT10473 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:29:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from thomplex.thomson-csf.com (200.3.2.2) by gwsmtp.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.053) id 3C05575C00008E1E for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:34:13 +0100 Received: from thomplex.thomson-csf.com (200.3.2.2) by thomplex.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.036) id 3C01DF6800074652 for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:26:30 +0100 Received: from bgxplex3.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (1.38.9.153) by bgxplex.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.053) id 3C0507F500002257 for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:29:28 +0100 Received: from fr.thalesgroup.com (187.150.3.12) by bgxplex3.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.053) id 3BFE75E800007922 for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:34:57 +0100 Message-ID: <3C06000D.F9705F01@fr.thalesgroup.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:29:49 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me?= Marant Organization: There is no cabal, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml References: <20011128192239.B9601@pauillac.inria.fr> <20011129093158.B11328@hars> <20011129094325.A4695@verdot.inria.fr> <3C05FA31.14201157@fr.thalesgroup.com> <20011129101559.B19662@pauillac.inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Xavier Leroy wrote: > Please read the licensing conditions for OCaml. All parts that can be > linked with user's code (runtime, libraries) are distributed under the > LGPL, possibly with a future exception to clause 6 so that users can > link with this code without any additional requirements on their code. You're correct. So, you can confirm that I can ship my ocaml under the GPL? =20 > The QPL covers only the OCaml compilers themselves -- and of course > not the code they generate. No offence but, what was the reason that made you choose the QPL for compilers? > > I think that freedom is the right to choose the licence for the > > software you write. >=20 > Precisely. That's why, say, putting the libraries under the GPL would > be unacceptable; and even putting them under the LGPL (without > exceptions) isn't quite enough to achieve this goal. Because you would have forced people to use a GPL-compatible license. I can understand. --=20 J=E9r=F4me Marant ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr