From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B34BBC1 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:22:43 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmcBACSE10fAXQImh2dsb2JhbACQcgEBAQgKKZcb X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,488,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="23675973" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 12 Mar 2008 15:22:43 +0100 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m2CEMdgN004056 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:22:42 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmcBAOiD10dQW+UCh2dsb2JhbACQcgEBAQgKKZcZ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,488,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="8304687" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 12 Mar 2008 15:22:40 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JZRqn-0002CU-8F for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:22:37 +0000 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:22:37 +0000 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:22:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: what's in the future for ocamlbuild? Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:22:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1ef034530803112157m3bb804f4w6723252a84c2ec62@mail.gmail.com> <20080312115940.GA16816@capsaicin.mamane.lu> <20080312120506.GA1078@snarc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl2 (Debian) Sender: news X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 47D7E72F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 0100,:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 contrib:01 gpl:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml:02 patches:03 patches:03 gnu:03 bsd:04 correctly:04 consortium:05 On 12-03-2008, Vincent Hanquez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:59:40PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:31:36AM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: >> >> > I don't think INRIA team are against accepting your patches, if it >> > fits correctly in OCaml. >> >> I was under the impression that they had a policy to keep the wole >> copyright under INRIA hands, so that Caml consortium members could get >> OCaml BSD licenses, and INRIA can do whatever it wishes in the future. >> >> That's rather contrary to accepting patches without paperwork >> (copyright assignment and all that). > > I don't believe INRIA accepts copyright assignment; > rationale is, AFAIR, that it's might not be legal in France. > Most of the GPL stuff are copyright FSF, which is indeed not legal in France. Following what you say, almost the full GNU tools suite is not legal in France (hopefully, lawyer have other things to do...) But, you can still provide a patch! If there is something that is acceptable regarding INRIA licence, it is patch... Maybe it will only be included as a patch, in a contrib directory... But anyway, lets stop right now this discussion, i won't enter in the usual "licence" flameware about OCaml. The first step to have a problem is to have a patch that cause a problem. When there will be a patch, or even better, a lot of patches, maybe INRIA will reconsider its position. For sure, if there is a lot of discussion about "what if there is a patch and then..." and no patch, i really don't see any reason to change anything. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall