From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB96BBBAF for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:13:39 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvUAABK4UktDww+jkWdsb2JhbACDYY4KgQSJFQEBAQEJCwoHEwOqZimBMoN4hlABBQQBgSeCMFYE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,291,1262559600"; d="scan'208";a="54174915" Received: from web111506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com ([67.195.15.163]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with SMTP; 17 Jan 2010 16:13:38 +0100 Received: (qmail 70183 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Jan 2010 15:13:37 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1263741217; bh=eYBxPjLI7/P/Oi2ORb4/QpOofss6wF6iYW+JwquFB8E=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=3iUqFe4DN6S2aVvZTc9jbmgfGbovYwWDom+meAcolBLJvM8zpa0xM86RkTzc5MLgLzafXp7Z3Ja82Fay5wGpSrpX/QH+mW3NHlGG/vG+XFafaHRXEmGeyZY7A8nQjaDhm5p65YpuIi18AuTso5BiFsqpC7Ia/s6+au6edqYtcgg= DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=DnGrpwf/CoXV2iaTY1q7F+ZRr+rU2tOD7OBJnnyXcb80Z3igYy47AmBbq8q0jzauI5S0EdZKUB9jE2LoMxEZMhUFWCz+iuWEpS2cabZJZdRyTKjuhL1umuqCjwDDqKauJIsDNdCM9qhvzSRqxDJPFuT8fKxDmYepN442qtEakqw=; Message-ID: <481835.69615.qm@web111506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: Y7eTJOQVM1mIlwQU.2xyOrAbhqmpfaGImzOeUCp7rKCiGpsi8XF7.vrRcnmCWE7xATLKsPlPXjG8svc_ppXm4ODQi1Zn_fBvj75eDNH2YgGeDhoqeGVTlBzaPiCAP51T2vU8W7ET6105QkqsYHn.2GD40EqElkj7qoI.dzZMLnG2fB4ZWysL9Y2jyf.Oc0pWe4lzBGRuBe6Qmgzj.mx7.4Y7X_P3SWxZ4G6XRHFQrRHGNNlKEz.OAgNixx_JtKbL2WzK_p7.czbipqgm8ou2UFRtNMPly_qUH6epRT7eGSkjf7nOVfzOteD6eDnPEywR.ZjPPwqOa2r94VC7zEAFDf45K_q86PvRAKwj0bCV9bxFRVTKYnzXksq2gD0_h0QZOK31hbUVx0xPi0YTsCfU1vg- Received: from [213.205.71.52] by web111506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:13:37 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/9.1.10 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:13:37 -0800 (PST) From: Dario Teixeira Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GPL with linking exception? To: OCaml List , guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch In-Reply-To: <4B530B45.9060303@citycable.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam: no; 0.00; lgpl:01 lgpl:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 statically:01 renders:01 gpl:01 gpl:01 exception:01 exception:01 caml-list:01 conflicts:01 binary:02 linking:02 linking:02 Hi,=0A=0A> I've been looking around on the net to see if I could find=0A> a= GPL3 + linking exception copyright notice lying around. I=0A> only found L= GPL + linking exception.=0A> =0A> Does anyone know what to write for GPL3 += linking=0A> exception? Is it even possible, or is only LGPL + linking=0A> = exception possible?=0A=0AIANALNDIPOOTV (I am neither a lawyer nor do I play= one on TV), but I'm=0Aunder the impression that the linking exception onl= y makes sense to=0Aappease the requirements of LGPL. The LGPL requires tha= t the main binary=0Amay be used with an updated version of the LGPL library= , which in most=0Acases implies some form of dynamic linking. However, thi= s conflicts=0Awith the most common way of building Ocaml programs, where al= l Ocaml=0Alibraries are statically linked into the main executable. Hence = the=0Aneed for a linking exception, which relaxes the LGPL requirement. If= ,=0Aon the other hand, the library is GPL, then all source code is availabl= e=0A(library + main), which renders this point moot.=0A=0ABest regards,=0AD= ario Teixeira=0A=0A=0A=0A