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 GAA02764; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 06:58:43 +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 GAA02641 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 06:58:42 +0100 (MET) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fA95wfj20111 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 06:58:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (patrick@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fA95wUB74297; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:58:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from patrick@watson.org) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:58:30 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick M Doane To: Michael Welsh Duggan cc: Caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011109005743.K73712-100000@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote: > Patrick M Doane writes: > > > OCaml doesn't provide support for shared libraries (although 3.03 does > > provide some dynamic loading capabilities for bytecode only). So we > > need to consider the portions of the license that apply for static > > linking. The LGPL provides some rather contradictory statements in section > > 6 regarding that: > > > > 1. you may also compile or link a "work that uses the Library" with the > > Library to produce a work containing portions of the Library, and > > distribute that work under terms of your choice, provided that the > > terms permit modification of the work for the customer's own use and > > reverse engineering for debugging such modifications. > > > > This clause is enough to throw out most commercial applications. It is > > standard industry practice to disallow reverse engineering. Most software > > companies are going to resist changing this - and for good reason too. > > That is section 1. Section 6 begins, "as an exception to the > Sections above"... It's section 6. I extracted two sections from it (that I labeled 1 and 2). ------------------- 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