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 HAA25626; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:18:55 +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 HAA25986 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:18:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail2.tpgi.com.au (mail.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.58]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1P6IrT10536 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:18:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozemail.com.au (syd-ts18-2600-114.tpgi.com.au [203.58.21.114]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by mail2.tpgi.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1P6Ioc11801 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:18:50 +1100 Message-ID: <3E5B0AC9.1010302@ozemail.com.au> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:18:49 +1100 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] User library license References: <20030223170018.GA1456@iliana> <00d501c2dba6$6c2085c0$1c13f9ca@Warp2> <20030224092404.GB826@iliana> <3E5A5DC4.839AAADE@orcaware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > > I would have no problems contributing to a library with these license > requirements, and suggest using Boost as a library to module Ocaml > libraries after. The kind of licence Boost uses is one I like, BUT it would be tricky to derive an extension to the OCaml std lib with that licence since it is LGPL. I doubt that Boost library *contents* are entirely appropriate for Ocaml though: stuff like Lambda etc are template hackery designed to emulate lower order facilities which are primitive to Ocaml: "we already got that in the core language". OTOH it might be useful to USE some of the code, for example the RE stuff is better than PCRE: its reentrant, will almost certainly be ISO Standardised, pay more attention to I189 issues, and there are no licence problems :-) -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners