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 PAA29703; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:26:50 +0200 (MET DST) 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 PAA30073 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:26:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.davidb.org (adsl-64-172-240-129.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [64.172.240.129]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i87DQkZT001326 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:26:48 +0200 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 4.41 #1 (Debian)) id 1C4fzh-00031K-8J; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 06:26:45 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 06:26:45 -0700 From: David Brown To: omake@metaprl.org Cc: james woodyatt , Caml List Subject: Re: [Omake] Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 Message-ID: <20040907132645.GA11460@old.davidb.org> References: <413BB044.3000007@cs.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 413DB716.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 caml-list:01 2004:99 bug:01 05,:01 sep:01 dave:03 interpreter:03 wrote:03 probably:05 core:06 obvious:06 versions:06 brian:06 bsd:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:54:09PM -0500, Brian Hurt wrote: > Yes. On the core interpreter, no. On the global omake file, yes. For > two reasons. First off, reimplementing someone else's code (even in a > different language) does create a derivitive work. Just like translating > a novel into a different language creates a derivitive work. Making it a > BSD license or similiar quashes this concern. Also, it encourages people > to grab the file in whole and just edit it, making an obvious derivitive > work. Although, if it needs to be changed, this should probably be reported as a bug. This is important, since this file changes as new versions of omake come out. Dave ------------------- 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