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 VAA25547; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 21:51:09 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA25462 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 21:51:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from ontil.ihep.su (ontil.ihep.su [194.190.161.63]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fA9Kp6n26745 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 21:51:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (vsl@localhost) by ontil.ihep.su (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fA9KsKK04523; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:54:22 +0300 Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:54:20 +0300 (MSK) From: Vitaly Lugovsky To: Patrick M Doane cc: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml In-Reply-To: <20011108232434.Y73712-100000@fledge.watson.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Patrick M Doane wrote: > "The LGPL puts no restrictions at all on programs linked with LGPL-ed > libraries. Thus, users are free to distribute (or not) OCaml-generated > binaries under whatever conditions they like." > > >From my reading of the LGPL, which seems to correspond with the opinions > of others on the list, this just isn't true. Please, read it again. Carefully. > If I develop an application > with OCaml, I must distribute that application with source code. No. You must distribute a runtime source or just put a link how to get it. Nothing more. There are a lot of commercial, closed source applications linked with LGPL libraries - e.g. any Linux commercial apps linked with GNU Libc. > This isn't acceptable for commercial development It IS acceptable. But here, I think, it's offtopic. Read slashdot, and so on. Look at WineX, for example: open source, commercial binaries. ------------------- 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