Ocaml license

Ocaml license

[Grant Olson]

I'm getting ready to release a little open source app I wrote in Ocaml.
This is a standalone app compiled with Ocaml.  I tried to read the license,
and between the "Q License" and the LGPL I'm not really sure what applies to
me.  I'm assuming the resulting binary links against LPGL code, so I need to
include at least that.

Can anyone tell me what I should put in my license file? Or should I just
paste in everything from the LICENSE document?

Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml license

[Christopher L Conway]

You shouldn't have to worry about the OCaml license at all. The LGPL
allows you to distribute code that merely links against the standard
library (as opposed to extending or modifying the library code) under
a license of your choosing.

Chris

On 7/1/07, Grant Olson <olsongt@verizon.net> wrote:
> I'm getting ready to release a little open source app I wrote in Ocaml.
> This is a standalone app compiled with Ocaml.  I tried to read the license,
> and between the "Q License" and the LGPL I'm not really sure what applies to
> me.  I'm assuming the resulting binary links against LPGL code, so I need to
> include at least that.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I should put in my license file? Or should I just
> paste in everything from the LICENSE document?
>
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Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml license

[Eric Cooper]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:06:05PM -0400, Christopher L Conway wrote:
> You shouldn't have to worry about the OCaml license at all. The LGPL
> allows you to distribute code that merely links against the standard
> library (as opposed to extending or modifying the library code) under
> a license of your choosing.

Agreed.  For example, the approx and ml-donkey servers in Debian are
OCaml apps licensed under the GPL.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u

RE: [Caml-list] Ocaml license

[Grant Olson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: christopherleeconway@gmail.com 
> 
> You shouldn't have to worry about the OCaml license at all. 
> The LGPL allows you to distribute code that merely links 
> against the standard library (as opposed to extending or 
> modifying the library code) under a license of your choosing.
> 
> Chris
> 

Thanks, but I'm asking if I still need to indicate that I'm using LGPL code
and reproduce the copywrite, or the the generated .exe is considered a
separate work.  That is, does it link to any of the LGPL code?  And the same
question with the Q-licensed components.

Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml license

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Grant Olson wrote:

> Thanks, but I'm asking if I still need to indicate that I'm using LGPL code
> and reproduce the copywrite, or the the generated .exe is considered a
> separate work.  That is, does it link to any of the LGPL code?  And the same
> question with the Q-licensed components.

Have you read this:

    http://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/ocaml/LICENSE.html

I think that spells it out pretty thoroughly.

Erik
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