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From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
Cc: John Field <jfield@us.ibm.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:32:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011129093210.A19619@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011129003818.EB7EF259CB@suburbia.net>; from proff@iq.org on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:38:18AM +1100

> > as BSD or X don't meet criterion 2.  Our current hope is that the LGPL
> > with a special exception to paragraph 6 saying "you can link with our
> > code any way you like" would fulfill all three requirements.
> 
> The {L,}GPL is itself copyright, and not under the {L,GPL}, so you can't do
> this.

Don't pull my leg.  Of course, the copyright owner can say "this code
is distributed under the conditions of the LGPL (quoted below in extenso),
with the special exception that ...".

Sheesh.  What next?  I can't shave because the FSF advocates beards?

- Xavier Leroy
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-29  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-30  1:18 Don Syme
2001-11-30  1:59 ` Julian Assange
2001-12-01  3:23   ` Richard Stallman
2001-12-04 18:53     ` Sven
2001-12-06  2:46       ` Richard Stallman
2001-11-27 19:10         ` John Field
2001-11-28 18:22           ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-28 19:14             ` Ronald Kuehn
2001-11-29  0:38             ` Julian Assange
2001-11-29  8:32               ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <20011129105008.DEBFD25A1B@suburbia.net>
2001-11-29 12:50                   ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-29 13:42                     ` Jérôme Marant
2001-11-29 13:11                 ` Greg Bacon
2001-11-29 23:01                   ` Julian Assange
2001-11-29 23:13                     ` Greg Bacon
2001-11-29  8:31             ` Florian Hars
2001-11-29  8:43               ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-11-29  9:04                 ` Jérôme Marant
2001-11-29  9:15                   ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-29  9:29                     ` Jérôme Marant
2001-11-29  9:25                   ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-11-29  9:35                     ` Jérôme Marant
2001-11-29  8:53               ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-30  8:09             ` Sven
2001-12-07  0:09           ` YAMAGATA yoriyuki
2001-12-07  7:11             ` Richard Stallman
2001-12-06 12:26         ` Sven
2001-12-07  3:12           ` Richard Stallman
2001-12-10 15:28             ` Sven
2001-12-10 23:24               ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-12-11  4:22                 ` hooh pxw
2001-12-11 10:19                 ` Sven
2001-12-11  7:15               ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-30  4:25 Gregory Morrisett
2001-11-29 19:49 David Gurr
2001-11-29  7:11 Ohad Rodeh
2001-11-28 20:29 John Field
2001-11-28 22:08 ` Al Christians
2001-11-29  1:25 ` james woodyatt
2001-11-29  8:47   ` Florian Hars
2001-11-30  7:12     ` james woodyatt
2001-11-09 15:55 Dave Berry
2001-11-09  4:30 Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09  4:48 ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2001-11-09  8:45   ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-09 15:52     ` Dave Scott
2001-11-09 16:40     ` David Brown
2001-11-09 16:40     ` Brian Rogoff
2001-11-12  8:07       ` Tom
2001-11-12 15:58         ` David Brown
2001-11-09  4:49 ` Will Benton
2001-11-09  5:35   ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09  5:53     ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2001-11-09  5:58       ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09  9:27         ` Sven
2001-11-09  9:58           ` Julian Assange
2001-11-09 10:37             ` Sven
2001-11-09 15:39             ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09 15:36           ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09  9:25     ` Sven
2001-11-09 15:33       ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09 16:26         ` Tom
2001-11-11 12:25         ` Sven
2001-11-09 11:09     ` malc
2001-11-09  5:50 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2001-11-09  8:59 ` Sven
2001-11-09 15:13   ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-11 12:00     ` Sven
2001-11-11 14:56       ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-26 16:21     ` Fergus Henderson
2001-11-26 16:47       ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-27 10:28         ` Fergus Henderson
2001-11-27 10:58           ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2001-11-28 18:00             ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-30  8:05               ` Sven
2001-11-09 20:54 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-11-09 21:39   ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-11 12:42     ` Sven
2001-11-11 22:05       ` Tom

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