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Re: ocaml, QPL and the DFSG: New ocaml licence proposal.



Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:32:23AM -0400, Walter Landry wrote:
>>Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>>I would much rather keep this one as is, and concentrate at a later
>>>time to the change to another licence altogether, maybe one of the
>>>upcoming CECILL family.
>>
>>If you could get it changed to the version with the explicit GPL
>>conversion clause, then we would have no issues.
> 
> Well, it will most assuredly not be the GPL-like licence anyway, so ...

The license itself is not GPL-like.  It just contains a clause partway
through the license saying that you may alternatively
use/copy/modify/distribute under the GPL.  I believe it was included to
ensure that the license was explicitly GPL-compatible.

- Josh Triplett

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