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From: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
To: caml list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: License question - QPL vs. SCM
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:29:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F9A346.4060900@gmail.com> (raw)

The core OCaml compiler has a QPL license[1] (for everyone but
consortium members).  This license allows distribution as follows:


2. You may copy and distribute the Software in unmodified form
provided that the entire package, including - but not restricted to -
copyright, trademark notices and disclaimers, as released by the
initial developer of the Software, is distributed.

3. You may make modifications to the Software and distribute your
modifications, in a form that is separate from the Software, such as
patches. ...


My question for INRIA's lawyers (or anyone else in some official
capacity to answer) involves using a Source Code Manager (SCM) whose
distribution method has structure: source + patch1 + patch2 + ....  The
SCM would do the lifting of combining the two into the final tree, just
as a script could easily wget an original source file and a list of
patches and combine them into the final tree.

Would using such a SCM to organize and distribute compiler source
violate OCaml's license?

Would using such a SCM make the Gods of OCaml angry?  :)  I don't intend
to slip through a legal crack, I just want to work efficiently, and
trying to manage patches without such a system seems like madness, like
Linux kernel development before BitKeeper (I imagine).

Edgar


[1] http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/license.en.html


             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-07  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-07  4:29 Edgar Friendly [this message]
2008-04-07 19:10 ` [Caml-list] " Peng Zang
2008-04-07 19:17   ` Adrien
2008-04-07 19:54   ` Dario Teixeira
2008-04-07 20:00     ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-04-07 20:09       ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2008-04-07 20:14     ` [Caml-list] " Peng Zang
2008-04-09 15:21 ` Xavier Leroy
2008-04-09 16:24   ` Edgar Friendly

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