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 RAA17637; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:01:47 +0200 (MET DST) 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 RAA17289 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:01:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from herd.plethora.net (herd.plethora.net [205.166.146.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i86F1iKP003303 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:01:45 +0200 Received: from bhurt.plethora.net (bhurt.plethora.net [205.166.146.49]) by herd.plethora.net (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id i86F1cK13329; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:01:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:10:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Brian Hurt X-X-Sender: bhurt@localhost.localdomain To: skaller cc: james woodyatt , Caml List , Subject: Re: [Omake] Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1094464332.3352.1075.camel@pelican.wigram> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 413C7BD8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 mli:01 mli:01 presto:99 quip:01 analogy:01 inference:01 intricate:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 sep:01 discard:02 derive:02 module:03 identical:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On 6 Sep 2004, skaller wrote: > > If this becomes important, hire a lawyer. > > Why would you believe a lawyer who can't cite a long > history of case law (decisions made by judges)? Because they have knowledge and experience that your average programmer or blowhard on the internet doesn't have. I wouldn't trust the average lawyer to write code, and I wouldn't trust the average programmer to write a license. > So .. hehe .. I could take your module and > copy the mli file and implement the functions and > then the interface is a derived work but the > implementation is not. And in Ocaml I could then > simply discard the mli file, run ocaml -i > to derive a new mli file -- and hey presto, > now the interface isn't a derived work either .. > even if line for line it is totally identical > to the original :) I'm not 100% sure where the line is drawn here. Nor am I 100% sure anyone else is either. That "blowhard on the internet" quip includes me- IANAL. An analogy to make things clear: I can, with a few sentences, explain type inference to my grandmother. But there are a heck of a lot of intricies and subtlities that will get glossed over in this paragraph introduction- some of them not so intricate or subtle. Exactly how corner cases and gray areas get handled can not be deduced from this abstract. In this case, I am grandma- I've had the five minute abstract thrown at me over dinner in casual conversation. -- "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene Spafford Brian ------------------- 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