From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789ABBC6B for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:02:34 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAPvw8UbAXQInlGdsb2JhbACBWIw5AQEBAQcEBgc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,278,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="16469879" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 20 Sep 2007 13:03:56 +0200 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l8KB3BJv018269 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:03:12 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAPvw8UbTHYTEnmdsb2JhbACBWIw5AQEBAQcCCAUi X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,278,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="16469874" Received: from mail15.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.196]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 20 Sep 2007 13:03:48 +0200 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c211-30-211-232.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [211.30.211.232]) by mail15.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l8KB3hgM020517; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:03:44 +1000 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:44:20 +1000 From: Matthew Hannigan To: skaller Cc: Zheng Li , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [ANN] coThreads 0.10 Message-ID: <20070920104420.GB25394@localhost.localdomain> References: <87lkb5fe3f.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <87sl5d8cgd.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <46F174D9.5060900@ujf-grenoble.fr> <877imm2z7h.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <1190249430.6642.1.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070920142938.d48552f2.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <1190272316.23116.34.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070920175233.a510630b.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <87abrhka16.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <1190284989.6770.28.camel@rosella.wigram> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1190284989.6770.28.camel@rosella.wigram> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46F2536F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml's:01 readline:01 readline:01 0.10:98 20,:98 gpl:01 gpl:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 thu:05 licence:05 sep:06 crappy:07 bash:08 top:89 On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:43:09PM +1000, skaller wrote: > Another *famous* example is 'readline()', the code that > does line editing for bash. Why is Ocaml's top level > so crappy, with no editing? Because of readline()'s GPL Surely that's not a good reason anymore; there are non-GPL workalikes to readline(). > licence it can't be used, because GPL is a virus, it > propagates to anything it touches.