From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA09624 for caml-redistribution; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:53:34 +0200 (MET DST) 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 VAA29066 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:16:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from shell5.ba.best.com (shell5.ba.best.com [206.184.139.136]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA03221; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:16:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (bpr@localhost) by shell5.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.sh) with ESMTP id MAA05089; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:16:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Rogoff To: Xavier Leroy cc: William Chesters , OCAML Subject: Re: licence issues In-Reply-To: <19990420102336.02431@pauillac.inria.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: weis On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Xavier Leroy wrote: > ... snip ... > > I wish open-source "ayatollahs" (as I called them before) could > think about these issues rather than just bullying everything that > is not GPL. (The latter takes a lot less thinking, of course.) I don't think the name calling is deserved. "Open source" is not the same as GPL. The person who asked me about OCaml prefers public domain, not GPL, and is hardly an "ayatollah". Since we are inventing hypothetical scenarios, try this one: INRIA stops funding the Caml project, for whatever reason. OCaml users are left "orphaned", as it is not clear who takes over, and begin the switch to SML and Haskell, or, much worse, C++, Perl, and Visual basic ;-). As a former Amiga and NextStep user, fear of being orphaned is a concern. I think the trick is to find a way to satisfy the valid concerns of the OCaml developers and the trepidations of some users. Perhaps if there were another version of OCaml (like the Bigloo based Caml Light) under the GPL or a similar license these concerns would be lessened. -- Brian