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 WAA16605; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:17:14 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA16700 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:17:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from mallaury.noc.nerim.net (smtp-102.noc.nerim.net [62.4.17.102]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1OLHDH22805 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:17:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from inria.fr (planar.net0.nerim.net [213.41.168.102]) by mallaury.noc.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9468D62DD1 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:17:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:18:36 +0100 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] User library license Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Damien Doligez To: caml-list@inria.fr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20030224092404.GB826@iliana> Message-Id: <89393F54-483D-11D7-B640-0003930FCE12@inria.fr> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 10:24 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > The problem with that is that anyone can take your work, modify it, and > don't give anything back, look at apple for example, they took the BSD > kernel, and don't give anything back. Doh. Apple has release all their changes to the BSD kernel under an open source licence. If the kernel had been under GPL, that wouldn't have changed much for them. > I think licencing is the main > reason they choose a BSD kernel over a linux one back then. It was NeXT that chose a BSD kernel. Darwin is the son of NeXTStep. Back then, Linux didn't exist, so the choice was not hard to make. > I suppose some people (including me) would not be willing to > contribute code under these circunstances The problem with these license discussions is that nobody knows what they are talking about. We're not lawyers after all. -- Damien ------------------- 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