From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D6DBC88 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:26:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0V9Qbw0011096 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:26:37 +0100 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 KAA22242 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:26:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp4.wanadoo.fr (smtp4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.27]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0V9Qapu011091 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:26:36 +0100 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0408.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 510931C00191; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:26:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from pegasos (AStrasbourg-251-1-65-234.w82-126.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.126.133.234]) by mwinf0408.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 272161C00178; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:26:33 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050131092633160.272161C00178@mwinf0408.wanadoo.fr Received: from luther by pegasos with local (Exim 4.43) id 1CvXmO-0007T8-PT; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:23:32 +0100 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:23:31 +0100 To: skaller Cc: Sven Luther , Alex Baretta , Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml license - why not GPL? Message-ID: <20050131092331.GB27694@pegasos> References: <20050128164744.GG13718@osiris.uid0.sk> <20050129.150538.78035843.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <20050130062235.GC32348@pegasos> <20050131.095711.27629180.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <41FDD853.5090801@barettadeit.com> <20050131073813.GC19902@pegasos> <41FDE282.7040709@barettadeit.com> <20050131075923.GE19902@pegasos> <1107162584.23363.78.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1107162584.23363.78.camel@pelican.wigram> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Sven Luther X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41FDF9CD.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41FDF9CC.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 gpl:01 sven:01 luther:01 sven:01 luther:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 gpl:01 afaik:01 merging:01 ocaml:01 toplevel:01 ...:98 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:09:45PM +1100, skaller wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 18:59, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > but in order to be able to build a thriving business I must make sure > > > that Xavier et al. won't meet me with a team of Dobermans to settle > > > copyright issues... > > > > I will not speak for Xavier et al. here, but i seriously doubt this is going > > to happen anytime soon. > > LOL! I think the problem is more difficult. Neither FSF nor INRIA > is likely to chase Alex with Dobermans. The problem will be that > the situation throws doubt on claims of ownership or authority > to licence, and that doubt may be an impediement to Alex in > selling his company's services or products. It makes no difference > if the doubts are well founded or not: the issue is with > the perceptions and biases of potential clients. > > After all the GPL has been very effective through the > combined power of persuasion backed up with a threat, without > the threat ever having been carried out (AFAIK). Well, Alex only needs to add the right GPL exemption for merging with the ocaml toplevel ... Mmm, maybe not, after further though, if the incompatibility is indeed in the QPL Clause 3b, then this will not help, since it imposes further non-GPL restrictions on the dervied code ... Friendly, Sven Luther