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 PAA23517; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:35:40 +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 PAA23902 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:35:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from mwinf0804.wanadoo.fr (smtp8.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.23]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i0LEZbP18877; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:35:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from iliana (AStrasbourg-206-1-4-141.w80-11.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.11.26.141]) by mwinf0804.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 226561800110; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:35:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjJSC-0001sJ-00; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:35:36 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:35:35 +0100 To: Maxence Guesdon Cc: skaller@tpg.com.au, erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr, caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml-get 0.1 Message-ID: <20040121143535.GA6935@iliana> References: <20040118174243.555a256e@haddock.max.fr> <1074561310.25914.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200401200437.30107.exa@kablonet.com.tr> <20040120111253.3e81ee04.maxence.guesdon@inria.fr> <1074693590.11497.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040121151833.67a29f5c.maxence.guesdon@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040121151833.67a29f5c.maxence.guesdon@inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Sven Luther X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sven:01 luther:01 sven:01 luther:01 2004:99 maxence:01 guesdon:01 2004:99 tpg:99 maxence:01 guesdon:01 granularity:01 interscript:01 fragment:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:18:33PM +0100, Maxence Guesdon wrote: > On 22 Jan 2004 00:59:51 +1100 > skaller wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 21:12, Maxence Guesdon wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:37:30 +0200 > > > > I guess licensing is for people to worry about, not programs :) > > > > > > But providing an easy way to indicate the license is important, I think, > > > -> the @license tag I want to add. > > > > Some licences .. most licences unfortunately .. > > create problems for such fine granularity. > > Technically to 'element-get' a single element > > which is a 3 line function .. you'd have to include > > the whole licence blurb of 60 lines or whatever. > > > > In interscript (my literate progamming/packaging system), > > I created some mechanism in which a single copy of each > > required licence could be shipped with a package.. > > but the licences were never included in the actual sources. > > [The typeset output contained a link to the file for html, > > or a reference for latex, etc ..). > > > > Anyhow, when you 'element-get' an element, you probably > > have to ensure the element is > > > > (a) at least tagged in the fragment source with the licence name > > (b) a copy of the required notice is fetched as well > > > > .. even if the whole notice isn't included with each element. > > That's what I was thinking about: the mandatory license tag could > take an url and the license would be retrieved from that url when > the caml-get archive is retrieved. If a license could not be > retrieved (because of a wrong url for example), the element would > not be available in the client repository. Notice that many licences mandate that either the full licence or a reduced version is available together with the source you distribute. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners