On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:30:43PM +0200, chr_bauer@nexgo.de wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. So if I link it against the Ocaml standard libraries,
> > they have to be GPL'd too. But they're not ..
> 
> from ocaml/LICENSE:
> 
> [...]
> The Library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General
> Public License version 2 (included below).
> [...] (LGPL)
> 3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
> License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library. 
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand the problem.

And, you don't even have to make this exception to use a LGPL library with
a GPL program.  You can also include libraries using many other licenses as
well.  The FSF has a fairly exhaustive list of licenses that are both
compatible and incompatible with the GPL.  Their site seems to be down
right now, so I can't grab a URL, but it isn't that difficult to find from
<http://www.fsf.org/>

Usually the reason another license is incompatible with the GPL is because
it contains something more restrictive than the GPL.

Dave

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