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 IAA07399; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:24:38 +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 IAA06616 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:24:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.203]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i856OarF025684 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:24:36 +0200 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 77so76528rnl for ; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.14.71 with SMTP id 71mr792415rnn; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.83.34 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 23:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 23:24:35 -0700 From: Nathaniel Gray Reply-To: Nathaniel Gray To: james woodyatt Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 Cc: The Caml Trade In-Reply-To: <838ECA4C-FEE4-11D8-837C-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4139ECD3.1050708@cs.caltech.edu> <001e01c492a6$872c7280$19b0e152@warp> <413A0921.7030607@ntlworld.com> <002301c492db$11b9aa10$19b0e152@warp> <90216F7A-FED9-11D8-837C-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> <20040905020318.GA3858@old.davidb.org> <838ECA4C-FEE4-11D8-837C-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 413AB124.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 woodyatt:01 jhw:01 wetware:01 2004:99 woodyatt:01 gpl:01 gpl:01 binary-only:01 posix:01 linked:01 0700,:01 0700,:01 sep:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:37:22 -0700, james woodyatt wrote: > On 04 Sep 2004, at 19:03, David Brown wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 06:18:58PM -0700, james woodyatt wrote: > > > >> OMake looks good, but it is GPL? which prevents me from using it until > >> it is a widely distributed and mature product. > > > > There isn't any particular reason you couldn't distribute a GPL program > > along with a program of another license. They aren't linked together, > > and > > therefore the licenses don't affect one another. Your program could > > even > > be a closed-source binary-only program that is distributed along with > > omake > > (but there is less of a need to do so). > > No. If I turn to a construction tool that comprises the functions I > want in addition to what is available in the POSIX make(1) tool, then I > will want to construct my project in such a way that establishes a > linkage between my source code and the construction tool under the > terms of the GPL. Can you be more specific? What are the functions you want? Why would they require you to link OMake into your final project and distribute it to your end users? Assuming your project is not a build tool itself, why would you want to make it a derived work of a build tool? > The GPL prevents me from using OMake for anything other than what I > already use Make. That's no good for me. What use do you have in mind? Cheers, -n8 -- >>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------> >>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu --> ------------------- 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