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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34CAEBBAF for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:19:38 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsYDACAB9EjAXQImiGdsb2JhbACTYAEBARUiqXGBbA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,408,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="18705883" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 14 Oct 2008 11:19:38 +0200 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m9E9JbCW023552 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:19:37 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgwCAGoA9EhQW+UCgWdsb2JhbACTYAEBFiIEqWaBbA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,408,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="30316280" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 14 Oct 2008 11:19:30 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpg3t-0001M1-C7 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:19:29 +0000 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:19:29 +0000 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:19:29 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: Road to native windows OCaml... Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200810131935.53365.kuba@mareimbrium.org> <548B4D09-6EFF-4805-83E2-D1F413706EE5@erratique.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 48F46429.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 ocaml:01 buenzli:01 cygwin:01 cygwin:01 mingw:01 ocaml:01 runtime:01 gpl:01 gpl:01 wrote:01 compile:01 msvc:01 msvc:01 sed:01 On 14-10-2008, Daniel Bünzli wrote: > > Le 14 oct. 08 à 09:59, David Allsopp a écrit : > >> Can I ask what the motivation is for this (out of interest, not >> criticism)? > > Maybe because if you want to distribute executables using cygwin you > have to release your code under a GPL compatible license [1]. > You need cygwin to compile MSVC/mingw version of ocaml. But this is only needed for tools like: tput, make, sed and cp. Once compiled ocaml doesn't need cygwin runtime. In other word, there is no contamination of the GPL license to executable compiled by OCaml MSVC with cygwin GNU make. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall