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 MAA03450; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:02:50 +0200 (MET DST) 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 MAA03673 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:02:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.6.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f5JA2kX10552; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:02:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lambda.u-strasbg.fr (mail@lambda.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.90.63]) by dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01275; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:01:44 +0200 Received: from luther by lambda.u-strasbg.fr with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15CIOk-0006M5-00; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:06:14 +0200 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:06:14 +0200 To: John Max Skaller Cc: Jacques Garrigue , Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml toplevel and readline Message-ID: <20010619120614.A24428@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> References: <3B2796C1.9144F7AE@ozemail.com.au> <20010614154525K.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <20010618093209.C12678@pauillac.inria.fr> <20010618184841N.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <3B2E2D9E.A85C2201@ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B2E2D9E.A85C2201@ozemail.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Sven LUTHER Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:34:38AM +1000, John Max Skaller wrote: > Jacques Garrigue wrote: > > > As long as you distribute the special runtime containing readline > > separately from the toplevel, this reasoning is OK. > > Hang on! I already have libreadline. > I don't want INRIA to distribute it, just detect if I already > have it. If I do, I would like to be able to link it in > to the top level. > > Alternatively, why not build the toplevel > with ledit? > > > But the first man making a custom toplevel is dead: > > having both in the same file won't do. > > I am the one linking it into the toplevel, not INRIA. > It will have no impact on me, since I do not use the top > level for producing code (only for testing the occasional > small fragments). Yes, it is ok to use, as long as you don't distribute it. So it is ok for you, but not for INRIA rpms or such, nor for my debian packages :((( Thats said, i would like such a feature a lot even if i have to rebuild the package to have it. > It's doubtful if the FSF licences mean much > anyhow. Python uses readline by default in its top level, > if available. There are lots of Python programs out there, > being run with a binary with readline linked in, which > are not licenced GPL, Python itself being an example. Python was just released under the GPL ... And because other people do it, doesn't mean that it is legal. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- 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