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 LAA10698; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 11:37:15 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA10396 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 11:37:14 +0100 (MET) 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 QAA18088 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:52:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from spanner.eng.cam.ac.uk (spanner.eng.cam.ac.uk [129.169.8.9]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fA9FqDn17758 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:52:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from cramp.eng.cam.ac.uk (via root@cramp.eng.cam.ac.uk [129.169.9.4]) by spanner.eng.cam.ac.uk with ESMTP id PAA18668 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:52:12 GMT Received: from spitfire.eng.cam.ac.uk (via IDENT:djs55@spitfire.eng.cam.ac.uk [129.169.98.3]) by cramp.eng.cam.ac.uk with ESMTP id fA9FqB405126 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:52:11 GMT Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:52:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Dave Scott To: Caml List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml In-Reply-To: <20011109094545.A4395@pauillac.inria.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Xavier Leroy wrote: > We haven't yet modified the LGPL to remove these silly restrictions on > linking with LGPL code, but plan to do so in the near future. > > We'd be interested in examples of other software projects that did this. > You mention Guile, however it seems to be under the (standard) GPL > (not even LGPL). AT&T's omniORB ( http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/ ) has a similar tricky licensing arrangement. The core CORBA library code is LGPL'ed while the associated tools (including the IDL compiler) are GPL'ed. Since the IDL compiler emits part of its own source in its output which then gets linked statically into all CORBA apps, there is an extra licensing note covering this (otherwise people might have to GPL all their CORBA code). >>From the README.FIRST file in the omniORB source distro: >>>> omniORB3 is copyright AT&T Laboratories - Cambridge. It is free software. The programs in omniORB3 are distributed under the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the file COPYING for copying permission of these programs. The libraries in omniORB3 are distributed under the GNU Library General Public Licence. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying permission of these libraries. We impose no restriction on the use of the IDL compiler output. The stub code produced by the IDL compiler is not considered a derived work of it. <<<< Not completely the same but nevertheless intersting... Cheers, -- Dave Scott -- Lab for Comms Engineering -- CUED ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr