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 JAA30130; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:01:53 +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 JAA30126 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:01:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f5L71lX26842 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:01:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (suiren.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.25]) by kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7W) with ESMTP id QAA05732; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:01:38 +0900 (JST) To: leary@nwlink.com Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml toplevel and readline In-Reply-To: <20010620234021.A24724@jean> References: <9gnrcd$4bv$1@qrnik.zagroda> <20010620234021.A24724@jean> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.2 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010621160137M.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:01:37 +0900 From: Jacques Garrigue X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk From: leary@nwlink.com > So, why not use a *compatible* license then...? Because the GPL is only compatible with weaker licenses: LGPL, BSD, and apparently the Python license now. (They list more, but most of them are just variants of BSD or LGPL). This leaves you very little choice. There are lots of licenses, including the QPL used for ocaml's compiler, which are recognized as free software by the FSF itself, but are not compatible with the GPL. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for a list. I really wish the GPL would include a special clause allowing linking to any free software. That would simplify a lot of things. Currently putting a library under the GPL not only means that you cannot use it inside a closed source project, but you cannot even use it in free software if it is not GPL'd. Jacques Garrigue ------------------- 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