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 RAA08757; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:22:26 +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 RAA19358 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:22:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mwinf0603.wanadoo.fr (smtp3.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.25]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h8JFMOj29896 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:22:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from debian (ca-bordeaux-2-87.w80-8.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.8.74.87]) by mwinf0603.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 3AC5C24000D3 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:22:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from moi by debian with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0MmF-0007Kq-00 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:02:31 +0200 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Commercial application written in O'Caml: ExcelEverywhere References: <3F6AB7CB.6020505@abc.se> <1063969848.27470.42.camel@pelican> <20030919144920.GC4205@redhat.com> From: Remi Vanicat Mail-Copy-To: never Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:02:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030919144920.GC4205@redhat.com> (Richard Jones's message of "Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:49:20 +0100") Message-ID: <87y8wkom7s.dlv@wanadoo.fr> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 lgpl:01 lgpl:01 gpl:01 dynamically:01 statically:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 labri:01 u-bordeaux:01 writes:01 remi:01 remi:01 sep:01 vanicat:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Richard Jones writes: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:10:49PM +1000, skaller wrote: >> Agree. Too many LGPL contributions, which I can't >> use in my open source project because it has a >> public domain licence -- I *desire* to encourage >> commercial use of my code: the more users the better. > > Are you sure LGPL is a problem in this case? LGPL is a great > compromise license because you get the changes to your library back, > but commercial (and other) users can always use the library. I prefer > it over GPL most of the time. You need the special exception that you will find into the Objective Caml License, because LGPL only give you the right to link with non free only dynamically, and ocaml link statically. -- Rémi Vanicat remi.vanicat@laposte.net ------------------- 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