From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89A7BBA7 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:06:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.barettadeit.com (h213-255-109-130.albacom.net [213.255.109.130] (may be forged)) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k17863Zr025039 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:06:03 +0100 Received: from [10.1.0.20] (unknown [10.1.0.20]) by mail.barettadeit.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A50712563 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:07:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43E852AA.1020805@barettadeit.com> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:56:26 +0100 From: Alessandro Baretta User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OCaml Subject: License question: tricky issue Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 43E854EB.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; baretta:01 baretta:01 barettadeit:01 tarball:01 ocaml:01 tarball:01 tarballs:01 non-free:01 ocaml:01 tarballs:01 xcaml:01 toolchain:01 ocaml-cvs:01 metaocaml:01 findlib:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Would the authors/copyright holders consider a tarball containing an Ocaml source tarball plus other source code and other source tarballs as a distribution of their software or as a derived work? The question is tricky due to the non-free public license adopted by Inria originally. I ask this question because I would like to release a source distribution for Ocaml containing all source tarballs and all patches needed to build a complete AS/Xcaml toolchain. This includes one or more stable ocaml tarballs, an ocaml-cvs directory (for testing purposes), a metaocaml tarball, and a quite a few libraries (findlib, pcre-ocaml, ocamlnet, pxp, extlib, postgres and a bunch more). If I understand the QPL correctly, should this project be considered a derived work I would not be allowed to distribute it; whereas, if it is considered a distribution, à la Debian, there should be no problem. Notice that all modifications to other peoples code exist in my distribution in the form of patch files, which are automatically applied before the build process begins. Alex -- ********************************************************************* Ing. Alessandro Baretta Studio Baretta http://studio.baretta.com/ Consulenza Tecnologica e Ingegneria Industriale Technological Consulting and Industrial Engineering tel. +39 02 370 111 55 fax. +39 02 370 111 54