Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild on Windows and bash vs. cmd

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 09:13:01AM -0400, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> We have a CLA from all external contributors, so re-licensing under a
> more liberal license should be easy, except insofar as we need to do
> some due dilligence on whatever new license we pick. Presumably, the
> open source lawyer who advised us to pick Apache 2 had some reason for
> it, which we need to think about it.

Doesn't the current Apache license have a clause allowing you to 
relicence it with some variety of GPL? 

-- hendrik

> 
> (By the way: see? CLAs aren't all bad...)
> 
> We'll look into it.
> 
> y
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:
> > The standard MirageOS license for our libraries is ISC, which is short and simple (and the standard license used for new code in OpenBSD):
> >
> > https://github.com/mirage/mirage/blob/master/LICENSE.md
> >
> > regards,
> > Anil
> >
> >> On 11 Oct 2016, at 14:00, Ivan Gotovchits <ivg@ieee.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Yaron,
> >>
> >> Given that most of the Janestreet codebase is developed in-house, it might be not that hard to relicense it. This is especially true for `shexp` that currently
> >> has only one contributor. I would suggest switching to ISC or MIT (aka X11, aka Expat) licenses. Probably the former should be preferred, as it is shorter and cleaner.
> >> The full list of licenses compatible with GPL is here [1].
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ivan
> >>
> >> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Yaron Minsky <yminsky@janestreet.com> wrote:
> >> You have got to be kidding me.
> >>
> >> Maybe we can dual license? It would be lovely to avoid the rewrite.
> >> What license would be adequate? Maybe we can license everything under
> >> LGPLv2+exception and Apache?
> >>
> >> I hate licenses.
> >>
> >> y
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Soegtrop, Michael
> >> <michael.soegtrop@intel.com> wrote:
> >> > Dear Yaron,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> I very much hope the licensing isn't an issue. We purposely picked a very
> >> >> liberal license to make this kind of thing as easy as possible. Do tell us
> >> >> if you find an issue there.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > it is hard to believe, but the licensing is an issue. According to this
> >> > reference from Apache:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > citation:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > “Despite our best efforts, the FSF has never considered the Apache License
> >> > to be compatible with GPL version 2, citing the patent termination and
> >> > indemnification provisions as restrictions not present in the older GPL
> >> > license.”
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > the apache license you use is not compatible with GPL2. Since the OCaml
> >> > library is LGPL 2.1, it cannot include Apache licensed code. The patent
> >> > issue mentioned above has nothing to do with the difference between GPL and
> >> > LGPL, so my guess would be that this also applies to LGPL 2.X.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Please note that the above reference states that Apache is compatible with
> >> > GPL 3, but I guess you can write a PhD thesis in law and/or computer science
> >> > about the topic if it is better to have GPL 2.x+ or GPL 3+Apache.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > If you think it is worthwhile, I can ask one of our open source lawyers for
> >> > advice, but I think the above statement from Apache is fairly clear.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > So as it looks, I have to rewrite from scratch what I need - sigh
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Best regards,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Michael
> >> >
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