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 NAA07099; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:17:37 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA07112 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:17:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from alex.baretta.com ([213.255.109.130]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2JCI4KW030654 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:18:05 +0100 Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alex.baretta.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2JCHwgh003691; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:17:58 +0100 Message-ID: <405AE4F6.6010801@baretta.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:17:58 +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: Sven Luther , Ocaml 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> <405AC57A.1090300@baretta.com> <20040319101741.GA21455@lambda> In-Reply-To: <20040319101741.GA21455@lambda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce 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 2004:99 qpl:01 lgpl:01 sven:01 luther:01 qpl:01 impossibile:99 patched:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 219 Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:03:38AM +0100, Alex Baretta wrote: > > Noting is stopping you from doing that, Please read the QPL and LGPL > before making such uninformed claims. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther Sven, I am aware of the QPL. You do realize that it is an inconvenience to maintain the stock Ocaml tree and the patch, or tree of patches. It is not impossibile, but it is an inconvenience. I have a number of patches to the stock ocaml--minor stuff--which would be easier to maintain if I were allowed to distribute the modified source as opposed to source-and-patches. Since my company is under-staffed at present, I do not have time to spare for distributing patches. So we just keep our patched core for internal use and wait until there will be a coordinated effort to which we can contribute. This thread seems to indicate that the only viable proposal for creating a community project around Ocaml is Gerd's GODI. I'm glad that Xavier gave Gerd some informal backing. However, managing GODI is going to be troublesome (not impossibile, just troublesome) until the licensing will allow GODI to incorporate in its codebase any patches which the GODI maintainer/team will consider appropriate. I am expressing the need for the community project to make only additions, but actually modifications to the core project. I have no trouble with QPL 3.b, which is probably what INRIA cares most about. I am simply stating that QPL 2 is an unnecessary hassle for everyone. 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