Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 17:09, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> >
> > What is the difference between granting of extra permissions and
> > granting of extra freedoms?
>
> Nothing. Therefore, I require you to grant me a permissive license to
> all code you have ever written.
>
> Oh wait, that doesn't seem free to you? Why? Because it's a
> requirement. What's the difference between charity and tax? Tax is a
> requirement, charity is freely given.
No, it seems non-free because it's a contamination of other software,
which is something we believe to be outside the scope of a free software
license.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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