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Date: | 2004-01-21 (14:35) |
From: | Sven Luther <sven.luther@w...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Caml-get 0.1 |
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:18:33PM +0100, Maxence Guesdon wrote: > On 22 Jan 2004 00:59:51 +1100 > skaller <skaller@tpg.com.au> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 21:12, Maxence Guesdon wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:37:30 +0200 > > > > I guess licensing is for people to worry about, not programs :) > > > > > > But providing an easy way to indicate the license is important, I think, > > > -> the @license tag I want to add. > > > > Some licences .. most licences unfortunately .. > > create problems for such fine granularity. > > Technically to 'element-get' a single element > > which is a 3 line function .. you'd have to include > > the whole licence blurb of 60 lines or whatever. > > > > In interscript (my literate progamming/packaging system), > > I created some mechanism in which a single copy of each > > required licence could be shipped with a package.. > > but the licences were never included in the actual sources. > > [The typeset output contained a link to the file for html, > > or a reference for latex, etc ..). > > > > Anyhow, when you 'element-get' an element, you probably > > have to ensure the element is > > > > (a) at least tagged in the fragment source with the licence name > > (b) a copy of the required notice is fetched as well > > > > .. even if the whole notice isn't included with each element. > > That's what I was thinking about: the mandatory license tag could > take an url and the license would be retrieved from that url when > the caml-get archive is retrieved. If a license could not be > retrieved (because of a wrong url for example), the element would > not be available in the client repository. Notice that many licences mandate that either the full licence or a reduced version is available together with the source you distribute. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- 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