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 LAA28949; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:46:15 +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 LAA28907 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:46:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mrwall.kal.com (mrwall.kal.com [194.193.14.236]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f569kDL05395 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:46:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mrwall.kal.com [194.193.14.236] (HELO localhost) by mrwall.kal.com (AltaVista Mail V2.0J/2.0J BL25J listener) id 0000_0050_3b1d_fc7f_5e24; Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:48:47 +0100 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: [Caml-list] CDK license MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 10:44:30 +0100 Message-ID: <8E31D6933A2FE64F8AE3CC1381EEDCE704C225@NT.kal.com> Thread-Topic: [Caml-list] CDK license Thread-Index: AcDuZX1uosx6GIgYTGOV5XtC/HcoQgAB3WLg From: "Dave Berry" To: "Sven LUTHER" , Cc: Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I would encourage people to use an X/BSD-like license for code whereever possible. This license allows anyone to do anything whatsoever with the code, provided that they keep the copyright notice and NO WARRANTY notice. It saves you all this hassle with determining what is and is not allowed, and which code may be linked or distributed with which other code. >>From a practical point of view, it allows a commercial organisation to redistribute the code, and to include it with other products. Assuming you want OCaml to be used as widely as possible, this would be a Good Thing. =20 I can understand why INRIA want the compiler itself to be under a more restrictive license (although I still disagree with that decision). For libraries, the argument doesn't hold. The main requirement is to get them used as widely as possible, with as few restrictions as possible on their use. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr