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 CAA15194; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 02:33:12 +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 CAA15032 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 02:33:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from swordfish.cs.caltech.edu (swordfish.cs.caltech.edu [131.215.44.124]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i860X9xx000328 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 02:33:10 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (charter-242-009.caltech.edu [131.215.242.9]) by swordfish.cs.caltech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA0FDF2BB; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <413BB044.3000007@cs.caltech.edu> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 17:33:08 -0700 From: Aleksey Nogin Reply-To: james woodyatt , Caml List , omake@metaprl.org Organization: California Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040901 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: omake@metaprl.org, james woodyatt Cc: Caml List Subject: Re: [Omake] Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 References: <4139ECD3.1050708@cs.caltech.edu> <001e01c492a6$872c7280$19b0e152@warp> <413A0921.7030607@ntlworld.com> <002301c492db$11b9aa10$19b0e152@warp> <90216F7A-FED9-11D8-837C-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> <413B795A.4020305@cs.caltech.edu> <7810902A-FF99-11D8-8747-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> In-Reply-To: <7810902A-FF99-11D8-8747-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 413BB046.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 woodyatt:01 non-gpl:01 gpl:01 usr:01 gpl:01 626:99 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 lib:01 caltech:01 caltech:01 syntax:02 makefile:02 linking:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On 05.09.2004 17:12, james woodyatt wrote: > I want to be able to extend the functions so that my build system knows > how to use more toolchains than just C and Ocaml, and I want those > extensions to be bundled with my non-GPL code. If I were to use Omake, > then I expect my code would link to the functions in the Omake > distribution, and I would then be in violation of the GPL if I didn't > use a GPL-compatible license for my distribution. There is no "linking" involved when you use the built-in rules of omake. The way it looks is that in your own OMakeroot file you will have something like: # # Include the standard configuration # include $(STDROOT) (although I do not really know what would be considered "linking" in a case of an interpreted language). As I mentioned in an earlier post, the "built-in" support of C, OCaml, LaTeX, etc is not some built-in magic - there is just a "global" omake file that is included in the distribution that defines a number of default rules, using the same syntax that you would use in your own OMakefile. The situation is identical to having a big make file with a lot of useful rules and you just adding include /usr/local/lib/make/UsefulMakeFile to the Makefile in your project. Doing something like that would in no way require modifying make itself in any way. I would guess there would be nothing wrong with using a liberal license (BSD or like) on this "global omake file", in order to allow users to borrow pieces of it and freely modify them as needed, while the main omake engine would still stay GPL... Do people feel that a license change of this sort would be helpful? -- Aleksey Nogin Home Page: http://nogin.org/ E-Mail: nogin@cs.caltech.edu (office), aleksey@nogin.org (personal) Office: Jorgensen 70, tel: (626) 395-2907 ------------------- 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