On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 08:53:45PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > The bytecode interpreter and the run-time libraries needed to > be linked with it are all GPL.
Not according to the copyright file. The copyright file included in Debian says LGPL. > The ocaml source for the compiler itself is QPL. True. > The choice of QPL for the compiler is somewhat peculiar, given > that it is not related to Qt at all. It is concievable that the > author of Ocaml simply likes the QPL better than the GPL. The authors position, as explained by them in a long flamewar on gnu.misc.discuss, was that they didn't want anyone ripping off their code to improve stuff like Java and other non functional programming languages, which is why they were going to stay non-free. Apparently, they were convinced that Open Source or DFSG-free was the way to go, so they picked the most restrictive license they could find to keep people from improving "inferior" technologies. (Sorry if that was a little opinionated - but the facts should be accurate.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU
