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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | John Max Skaller <skaller@o...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] User library license |
> > I would have no problems contributing to a library with these license > requirements, and suggest using Boost as a library to module Ocaml > libraries after. The kind of licence Boost uses is one I like, BUT it would be tricky to derive an extension to the OCaml std lib with that licence since it is LGPL. I doubt that Boost library *contents* are entirely appropriate for Ocaml though: stuff like Lambda etc are template hackery designed to emulate lower order facilities which are primitive to Ocaml: "we already got that in the core language". OTOH it might be useful to USE some of the code, for example the RE stuff is better than PCRE: its reentrant, will almost certainly be ISO Standardised, pay more attention to I189 issues, and there are no licence problems :-) -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- 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