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 LAA30319; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:03:17 +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 LAA02164 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:03:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from alex.baretta.com ([213.255.109.130]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2JA3FHd008526 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:03:16 +0100 Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alex.baretta.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2JA3cgh003290 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:03:39 +0100 Message-ID: <405AC57A.1090300@baretta.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:03:38 +0100 From: Alex Baretta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: OCaml's Cathedral & Bazaar (was Re: [Caml-list] Completeness of "Unix" run-time library) References: <20040318184118.GC702@first.in-berlin.de> <200403182010.i2IKAK1a008157@nerd-xing.mit.edu> <20040318232039.GA1912@redhat.com> <20040319103054F.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <20040319085819.GB9616@redhat.com> <20040319091334.GB20532@lambda> In-Reply-To: <20040319091334.GB20532@lambda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; baretta:01 baretta:01 ocaml's:01 caml-list:01 run-time:01 sven:01 luther:01 qpl:01 gpl:01 sven:01 luther:01 patched:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 alex:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 207 Sven Luther wrote: > Because the QPL allows for modification to be reused by the ocaml team > in other licences, while the GPL doesn't allow for this. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther In my opinion it would be sensibile for INRIA to allow redistribution of patched sources, so long as the author of the modifications allows INRIA to include such modifications in its distributions under whichever license INRIA chooses to use. I would be more willing to contribute work on a GODI style ocaml distribution if it were easily possible to walk through core Ocaml code and modify if and when this may be needed. Alex ------------------- 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