On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Igor schrieb: > > > Hi, > > > In the course of my real job duties, I built O'Caml under Cygwin. It > > builds OOTB, and, even though there seem to be some minor packaging issues > > to be worked out, looks like it'll be easy to package nicely, so I was > > considering ITPing it. > > +1 vote from me.
Thanks, Gerrit. At this stage, though, I'm less concerned with getting the votes, and more with the licensing issues. BTW, you ported the earlier versions of O'Caml to Cygwin, didn't you? > > However, parts of it are released under the "Q Public license", which > > GNU lists explicitly as non-GPL-compatible. Does this mean an > > automatic "no" to an official Cygwin package, or does anyone know of > > anything that could be done to enable it? > > Huh? It is OSI certified: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/qtpl.php Yes, but GPL incompatible (<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html>). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw
