Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.

[Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it>]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:07:21 -0400 Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:

> Francesco, I think you're misinterpreting Sven's intent with the "more
> permissive" license.  The idea is not that you or I would ever see
> such a thing; rather, INRIA sells licenses to Ocaml.  You pay them
> $10k or so, and you get a permissive license.  If you don't pay, you
> get the QPL.

Yes, this would be possible in Sven's hypothesis, I know.
And I knew, when I replied.

Actually, my reply to Sven's hypothesis was my first sentence:

| IMHO, it would not improve the modified-QPL freeness.

The rest was simply *another* hypothesis, the dual-licensing one:

| It however would really improve the ocaml freeness, if ocaml itself
| were dual-licensed under a 2-clause BSD license [...]

Did I clarify?

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