Re: [Caml-list] ocaml compiler license

[Fabrice Le Fessant <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>]

From the QPL 1.0 license in OCaml sources:

"... distribute your modifications, in a form that is separate from
the Software, such as patches."

In GIT, the software itself is a set of patches, so it's not so clear
for me that if the modifications are another set of patches, there are
in a "separate form".

Anyway, many people are distributing modified OCaml versions under
GIT, and INRIA has never complained about it, to the best of my
knowledge.

--Fabrice



On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:07 AM, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:
> Alexey Egorov wrote:
>> Hi Adrien,
>>
>> thanks for your reply.
>>
>> But wouldn't publicly avalable github repo with modified
>> sources violate license (just because non-patch/diff version
>> is publicly available)?
>
> IANAL, but if you put all your changes in a separate branch on your own git repo (forked from the official Git mirror) then you are literally storing a set of patches - the ability to download the entire distribution as one whole (or even as a .tar.gz file, say on GitHub) is just a convenience provided by the software, it's not what you're actually providing.
>
>
> David
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