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 IAA10962; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:38:53 +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 IAA11256 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:38:52 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from fep02-svc.flexmail.it (fep02.tuttopmi.it [212.131.248.101]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6D6cpSH013254 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:38:51 +0200 Received: from baretta.com ([80.21.243.66]) by fep02-svc.flexmail.it with ESMTP id <20040713063846.GUZR17223.fep02-svc.flexmail.it@baretta.com>; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:38:46 +0200 Message-ID: <40F383AF.2080401@baretta.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:39:43 +0200 From: Alex Baretta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: it, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Jones , Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] embedded OCaml References: <40F29A51.6010508@baretta.com> <20040712232216.GA27856@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040712232216.GA27856@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40F3837B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; baretta:01 baretta:01 caml-list:01 2004:99 brandon:99 gpl:01 gpl:01 lgpl:01 whereby:01 gpled:01 compiler:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 0700,:01 alex:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Richard Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:48:23AM -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > >>Great... again, how is a GPL license workable for others with a >>commercial interest in the technology? I am saying that license is not >>workable. > > > The GPL works fine in situations where you don't want a company to > steal you hard work for nothing, and the LGPL works fine in > circumstances where you will allow people to link to your work but you > also don't want them to steal it. What is your point exactly? > > Rich. > We are willing to allow other companies to use our code in their products, so long as they are willing to release such products to the community for mutual benefit. Essentially, anyone interested in using our technology has two alternatives: 1) invest time and programming resources to improve our technology (and release it under the GPL or not release it at all) 2) invest money into a consulting contract with us to help them develop their products, whereby we would improve the core technology and continue to release it under the GPL. Overall, we've been in business for 20 months now, so we are no longer a newborn company. Our experience is significant, I think. We've been living by making GPLed software. Any code we release is covered by the GPL. We are still climbing the Himalayas of technology, so I can't say we are making cartloads of money, but we are making cartloads of technology while maintaining a non-negative cash-flow. We consider our results extremely pleasing. And, let this be noted, all our code is either written in Ocaml or in any one of a number of DSLs whose compiler we have written in Ocaml. Alex ------------------- 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