From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: sven.luther@wanadoo.fr
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml license - why not GPL?
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:57:11 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050131.095711.27629180.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050130062235.GC32348@pegasos>
From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
> > The QPL is an official open-source license.
>
> Well, it seems that this same fact is highly disputed, and trolltech did in
> fact dual licence Qt under the GPL too. The current ocaml licence was modified
> from plain QPL though recently, after 2-4 week of intense flamewar on
> debian-legal, and there are some clause yet in it which where subject to
> discussion.
Well, I don't know who disputed this, at least it is an OSI recognized
open-source license, which I believe to be the definition of
"officially open-source".
To the best of my knowledge, Trolltech decided to release a GPL'ed
version of Qt because the QPL is not compatible with the GPL, which is
no surprise at all: by definition the GPL is only compatible with
itself, or strictly weaker licenses, like BSD or LGPL.
This is less of a problem with ocaml, because the part covered by the
QPL is the compiler, not the library, so this should only concern
persons hacking the compiler itself.
Jacques Garrigue
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-31 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-28 16:47 Jozef Kosoru
2005-01-28 17:08 ` [Caml-list] " David Brown
2005-01-28 19:09 ` Jon Harrop
2005-01-29 23:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-28 17:14 ` [Caml-list] " Luc Maranget
2005-01-29 6:05 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-01-30 6:22 ` Sven Luther
2005-01-31 0:57 ` Jacques Garrigue [this message]
2005-01-31 7:03 ` Alex Baretta
2005-01-31 7:38 ` Sven Luther
2005-01-31 7:47 ` Alex Baretta
2005-01-31 7:59 ` Sven Luther
2005-01-31 9:09 ` skaller
2005-01-31 9:23 ` Sven Luther
2005-01-31 9:00 ` Xavier Leroy
2005-01-31 9:15 ` Sven Luther
2005-01-31 9:47 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2005-01-31 10:29 ` Xavier Leroy
2005-01-31 10:41 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2005-01-31 11:08 ` Alex Baretta
2005-01-31 11:49 ` Alex Baretta
2005-01-31 7:35 ` Sven Luther
2005-01-30 6:18 ` Sven Luther
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