From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id FAA00655; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 05:49:37 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA01722 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 05:49:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from schroeder.cs.wisc.edu (schroeder.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.6.11]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fA94nZj18760 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 05:49:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from cs.wisc.edu (cilantro.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.166.48]) by schroeder.cs.wisc.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fA94nXR30030; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 22:49:33 -0600 Message-ID: <3BEB605D.78A04C4E@cs.wisc.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 22:49:33 -0600 From: Will Benton Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-6.2.1.csl3smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml References: <20011108232434.Y73712-100000@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-perl11-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > [...] > >From my reading of the LGPL, which seems to correspond with the opinions > of others on the list, this just isn't true. If I develop an application > with OCaml, I must distribute that application with source code. Whoa, nelly! I don't know that I'd characterize the LGPL as a "problem", but your reading of it is completely off the mark. The LGPL requires that if you distribute an application linked to a library, that you must allow users to re-link against newer versions of the library that maintain interface compatibility, presumably by providing object files, bytecodes -- OR you must distribute an application that uses shared libraries. It is C-centric, but I do not think it poses any problems. (You must also redistribute any changes you make to the LGPLed library itself.) ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr