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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Richard Stallman <rms@g...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml |
Many of the discussion you saw, is, it seems for me, related to
alleged ambiguity of the statement "provided that the terms permit
modification of the work for the customer's own use and reverse
engineering for debugging such modifications" in the beginning of the
section 6. of LGPL. People are afraid that, in the end, this clause
forces developer to provide the source of their "work that uses the
Library", or something making reverse engineering easy (like unstriped
executable.)
I think this is much ado about nothing, since the LGPL explicitly says
it is sufficient to provide object files to the customer. A court
would hardly adopt a strained interpretation of "modification for the
customer's own use" against that explicit statement.
But I will take a look at this--some day when I have time.
Unfortunately it can't be soon. Other higher-priority issues
are ahead of it.
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