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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@c...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] GPL with linking exception? |
Dario Teixeira a écrit :
> Hi,
>
>> My question about GPL is mostly the following: Can you
>> distribute GPL bytecode files? Do you have any issues when
>> 'linking' the runtime with the GPL bytecode?
>>
>> Or are there other issues preventing from releasing GPL OCaml code?
>
> If you want a waterproof lawyerly response you should consider contacting
> an organisation like the Software Freedom Law Center [1]. Nevertheless,
> IMHO I see no obstacle in using the GPL with Ocaml code, and there are
> in fact plenty of Ocaml projects using this license. Could you elaborate
> on why you feel that the GPL could in theory prevent the release of Ocaml
> code?
Well, you create a bytecode executable under GPL. You therefore include
the OCaml bytecode runtime. You'd be distributing part of the bytecode
runtime under the GPL, and I somehow feel there's a fish in doing so.
This is just a question I'm asking myself. I do not have a hard opinion
on that. Im just asking to collect advice from people on this list who
might have wondered the same kind of things. That's all.
All the best,
--
Guillaume Yziquel
http://yziquel.homelinux.org/