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 D772DBBA7 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:28:22 +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 k17JSMkd023104 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:28:22 +0100 Received: from [10.1.0.20] (unknown [10.1.0.20]) by mail.barettadeit.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C128712563; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:29:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43E8F29B.8010101@barettadeit.com> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:18:51 +0100 From: Alessandro Baretta User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xavier Leroy Cc: OCaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License question: tricky issue References: <43E852AA.1020805@barettadeit.com> <43E8DB16.4010102@inria.fr> In-Reply-To: <43E8DB16.4010102@inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 43E8F4D6.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; baretta:01 baretta:01 barettadeit:01 caml-list:01 tarball:01 ocaml:01 tarball:01 tarballs:01 non-free:01 peoples:01 ocaml:01 tarballs:01 ingegneria:98 wrote:01 caml:02 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 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 -- ********************************************************************* 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