From: Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@barettadeit.com>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: OCaml <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License question: tricky issue
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:18:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E8F29B.8010101@barettadeit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E8DB16.4010102@inria.fr>
Xavier Leroy wrote:
>>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.
>>[...]
>>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.
> So, please go ahead with your distributions plans, this is exactly how
> we intend the Caml source to be used.
Thank you very much. I would like to make sure that the "distribution"--one or
more ocaml tarballs, a bunch of tarballs by various authors, plus some patches
and scripts from myself--is not considered a "derived work" under the terms of
the QPL. I would not like this to be the case, as the QPL authorizes the
original authors to use the "derived works" in non free ways: this is the
non-freeness in the QPL.
All this sounds very much nonsensical to us programmers, but it might make a
considerable difference to managers and lawyers.
Alex
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-07 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-07 7:56 Alessandro Baretta
2006-02-07 12:06 ` [Caml-list] " Sven Luther
2006-02-07 17:38 ` Xavier Leroy
2006-02-07 19:18 ` Alessandro Baretta [this message]
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