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 mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94697BBAF for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:57:34 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlwEAJ81eUvD2MUqgWdsb2JhbACDBZgRFQEBFiQjriqOfoEwglBbBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,478,1262559600"; d="scan'208";a="44697173" Received: from bluelynx4.ukhost4u.com ([195.216.197.42]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 15 Feb 2010 20:57:34 +0100 Received: from [78.105.203.81] (helo=muscat.lan) by bluelynx4.ukhost4u.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nh74W-0005HR-0O; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:57:32 +0000 Message-ID: <4B79A729.5010401@coherentgraphics.co.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:57:29 +0000 From: John Whitington User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFuaWVsIELDvG56bGk=?= Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: camlpdf's license (was Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Proview PDF Editor for Mac OS X - written (mostly) in OCaml) References: <91a3da521002151136oee81d1cqec25a16190c0546a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <91a3da521002151136oee81d1cqec25a16190c0546a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bluelynx4.ukhost4u.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - inria.fr X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - coherentgraphics.co.uk X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 literate:01 explicitely:01 cheers:01 glanced:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 graphics:02 bugs:03 clause:03 clause:03 daniel:04 daniel:04 problem:05 restriction:05 Hi Daniel, On 15/02/2010 19:36, Daniel Bünzli wrote: > John, > > I once glanced over your interesting literate program and would > certainly consider using camlpdf if I needed to peform advanced pdf > processing. > > However one thing that bugs me is that your licensing terms > explicitely discriminates against use by a number of companies. The > problem is what tells me that my name won't appear on that list on the > next release ? > > Of course any piece of free software can add a new license clause on > the next release to discriminate against someone. So in some sense > using camlpdf is not less safe to use than any other piece of free > software. > > But still, I'd be nervous to use it knowing that you seem to be in > this mindset. Do you have maybe something to say about this ? or > better do you maybe plan to remove that clause in the next release ? This restriction is placed there due to a clause in the contract I originally developed this code under for a commercial company - I was paid for writing it, and in exchange we have shared copyright. I cannot remove it without their permission. I can't imagine any circumstances under which I would add such a clause myself. Since the contract under which it was developed has ended, there is no way that they could induce me to add to the list of companies in that clause, and I would not do so. I'm not happy with the situation, but I hope the above reassures. Cheers, -- John Whitington Director, Coherent Graphics Ltd http://www.coherentpdf.com/