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 IAA27733; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:28:54 +0200 (MET DST) 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 IAA28661 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:28:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from grisu.bik-gmbh.de (grisu.bik-gmbh.de [217.110.154.194]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h8N6SqH04305 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:28:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from bik-gmbh.de ([192.168.125.193]) by grisu.bik-gmbh.de (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h8N6SkhL017068; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:28:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hars@bik-gmbh.de) Message-ID: <3F6FE819.1070004@bik-gmbh.de> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:28:41 +0200 From: Florian Hars User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030917 X-Accept-Language: en-us, de-de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: skaller@ozemail.com.au CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A plea for clear licenses References: <200309171517.RAA32651@pauillac.inria.fr> <3F6B1728.3010903@bik-gmbh.de> <1064083374.2679.16.camel@pelican> In-Reply-To: <1064083374.2679.16.camel@pelican> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; florian:01 hars:01 hars:01 bik-gmbh:01 caml-list:01 plea:01 florian:01 ocaml:01 wrote:03 wrote:03 library:03 confusion:07 written:08 something:09 slowdown:09 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk skaller wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:48, Florian Hars wrote: >>Using anything else will just add to the confusion > What's wrong with plain old 'public domain'? In many parts of the world, including most of europe where many ocaml users live, about the only way for an author to release something he has written into the public domain is to have died seventy years ago. This may cause a significant slowdown of the development of a library. Yours, Florian. ------------------- 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