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 LAA10321; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 11:37:35 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA10414 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 11:37:35 +0100 (MET) 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 RAA20325 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:40:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from sj1-3-4-9.iserver.com (sj1-3-4-9.iserver.com [128.121.214.42]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fA9GeW512939 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:40:32 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 39425 invoked by uid 16863); 9 Nov 2001 16:40:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([unknown]) (envelope-sender ) by unknown (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Nov 2001 16:40:30 -0000 Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:40:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Brian Rogoff To: Xavier Leroy cc: "Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla" , Patrick M Doane , Caml List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml In-Reply-To: <20011109094545.A4395@pauillac.inria.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Xavier Leroy wrote: > > Yeah, this is a slightly misleading statement, unless the OCaml > > development team has made a modification to the LGPL similar to what was > > done for the Guile license, which is LGPL with one additional clause: > > blanket linking is allowed for Guile. (OCaml dev team, is this also the > > license under which the runtime exists?) > > We haven't yet modified the LGPL to remove these silly restrictions on > linking with LGPL code, but plan to do so in the near future. > > We'd be interested in examples of other software projects that did this. > You mention Guile, however it seems to be under the (standard) GPL > (not even LGPL). GNAT, www.gnat.com, also uses a modified standard GPL. They've been doing it for a while, and they even have commercial customers. Here's the whole damned thing -- -- This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under -- terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software -- Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. -- This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITH -- OUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY -- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License -- for more details. Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite -- 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. -- -- As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from this -- unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable, -- this unit does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be -- covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not -- however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be -- covered by the GNU Public License. Why not just translate Ada jargon to OCaml and swipe this? -- Brian ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr