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what's in the future for ocamlbuild?

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- Sylvain Le Gall
  - Lionel Elie Mamane
    - Vincent Hanquez
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        Vincent Hanquez
        
        Martin Jambon
        
        Sylvain Le Gall
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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Vincent Hanquez <tab@s...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Re: what's in the future for ocamlbuild?

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:59:40PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:31:36AM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> 
> > I don't think INRIA team are against accepting your patches, if it
> > fits correctly in OCaml.
> 
> I was under the impression that they had a policy to keep the wole
> copyright under INRIA hands, so that Caml consortium members could get
> OCaml BSD licenses, and INRIA can do whatever it wishes in the future.
> 
> That's rather contrary to accepting patches without paperwork
> (copyright assignment and all that).

I don't believe INRIA accepts copyright assignment;
rationale is, AFAIR, that it's might not be legal in France.

-- 
Vincent.