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 NAA25122; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:51:08 +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 NAA25119 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:51:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fATCoxT17090; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:50:59 +0100 (MET) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA25106; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:50:59 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:50:59 +0100 From: Xavier Leroy To: Julian Assange Cc: John Field , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml Message-ID: <20011129135059.A24529@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <20011129093210.A19619@pauillac.inria.fr> <20011129105008.DEBFD25A1B@suburbia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20011129105008.DEBFD25A1B@suburbia.net>; from proff@iq.org on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:50:08PM +1100 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > I'm not pulling your leg. The LGPL does not accept modifications, > and you can't take the Ocaml "distribute with patch" (to the license) > approach, because the LGPL states the LGPL must cover the whole > work or none of the work. This last claim seems to be an excessive simplification of what's in the LGPL. At any rate, I maintain that what I'm proposing ("this is distributed under the conditions of the LGPL with the special exception that ...") is perfectly OK. The GNAT project does exactly this: GPL + special exception listed separately. - Xavier Leroy ------------------- 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