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 PAA22679; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:18:47 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA22553 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:18:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i0LEIYv08744; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:18:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from tintin.inria.fr (tintin.inria.fr [128.93.24.126]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA22638; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:18:33 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:18:33 +0100 From: Maxence Guesdon To: skaller@tpg.com.au Cc: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr, caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml-get 0.1 Message-Id: <20040121151833.67a29f5c.maxence.guesdon@inria.fr> In-Reply-To: <1074693590.11497.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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> Organization: INRIA X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; maxence:01 guesdon:01 maxence:01 guesdon:01 caml-list:01 2004:99 tpg:99 2004:99 granularity:01 interscript:01 fragment:01 anyhow:01 tagged:01 literate:01 1100:98 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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. - Maxence ------------------- 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