From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9CBABC6C for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:20:41 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAFr9nkePtnwVp2dsb2JhbACQHgEBAQEBAQUEBAsCHp8EAYFz X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,270,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="6714038" Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 29 Jan 2008 19:20:40 +0100 Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 29 Jan 2008 10:20:39 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,270,1199692800"; d="scan'208";a="372653636" Received: from orsmsx334.jf.intel.com ([10.22.226.45]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 29 Jan 2008 10:17:11 -0800 Received: from orsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com ([10.22.226.47]) by orsmsx334.jf.intel.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:17:11 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [OSR] Suggested Topic - License Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:17:10 -0800 Message-ID: <5389061B65D50446B1783B97DFDB392D0894F5AE@orsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [OSR] Suggested Topic - License thread-index: AchioyodQ/6E8L4wRQq1mmTFMswgzA== From: "Grundy, Jim D" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jan 2008 18:17:11.0370 (UTC) FILETIME=[2A95A2A0:01C862A3] X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 lgpl:01 liberal:98 liberal:98 exception:01 caml:02 linking:02 external:03 clause:03 library:03 corporations:95 perhaps:05 distributed:05 consortium:05 fingerprint:05 One issue to be considered in a an external library standardization process is the license under which libraries accepted to the standard are made available. The obvious choice here is the same license as the OCaml standard libraries themselves (LGPL V2 + linking exception). Except that this isn't quite the same as the libraries distributed by INRIA. For those libraries companies have the option of joining the Caml Consortium, in which case they may license the standard libraries under a more liberal (for my intended meaning of the word) 4-clause BSD-like license, which is probably more appealing to many corporations. For example, you may wish to consider if you would like ported versions of the libraries released with F# and how the choice of license might make that possible or not. It may be worth investigating simply adopting a more liberal (again, for my intended meaning of the word) BSD-like (3 clause version perhaps) to spur wider corporate adoption of the proposed standard. Just something to think about. Jim -- Jim Grundy, Research Scientist. Intel Corporation, Strategic CAD Labs Mail Stop RA2-451, 2501 NW 229th Ave, Hillsboro, OR 97124-5503, USA Phone: +1 971 214-1709 Fax: +1 971 214-1771 Key Fingerprint: 5F8B 8EEC 9355 839C D777 4D42 404A 492A AEF6 15E2