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 KAA18046; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:24:46 +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 KAA17864 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:24:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from rly13b.srv.mailcontrol.com (cluster-b.mailcontrol.com [217.68.146.190]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i878Oi7t021998 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:24:45 +0200 Received: from wimex1.midas-kapiti.com ([217.196.233.76]) by rly13b.srv.mailcontrol.com (MailControl) with ESMTP id i878OAiK023460; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:24:14 +0100 Received: from [10.80.56.204] (PIGTAIL [10.80.56.204]) by wimex1.midas-kapiti.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id RW27XXCS; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:24:17 +0100 Message-ID: <413D7025.1000009@misys.com> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:24:05 +0100 From: Benjamin Geer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net CC: caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 References: <1094463492.3352.1061.camel@pelican.wigram> <20040906.203420.68034706.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <1094488104.3352.1160.camel@pelican.wigram> <20040907.112159.74194635.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <1094537878.3352.1262.camel@pelican.wigram> In-Reply-To: <1094537878.3352.1262.camel@pelican.wigram> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MailControl A-05-00-00 (www.mailcontrol.com) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 413D704C.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 jacques:01 gpl:01 criticism:01 gpl:01 abide:01 gpl'd:01 garrigue:01 exists:01 precisely:02 wrote:03 wrote:03 bind:03 dynamic:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk skaller wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 12:21, Jacques GARRIGUE wrote: >>2) the point I was trying to make was that the distinction between >> static and dynamic linkage is not relevant here, since the tool >> discussed does not link to anything anyway. > As it stands. But a client might want to modify it. > They might want to bind more strongly to it. > They might want to add a custom routine to it. The GPL exists precisely to require people to contribute to free software in that particular case. It is not a criticism of the GPL to say that it does its job well. If you don't wish to abide by the GPL, you are of course free not to use GPL'd software. Ben ------------------- 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