Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:43:43AM +0200, J�r�me Marant wrote:
>> Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> 
>> >  ocaml (3.08.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
>> >  .
>> >    * New upstream release.
>> >    * Do not install the emacs files, until upstream gives a response about
>> > the
>> >      licencing issue. (Closes: #227159, #227163)
>>      ^^^^^^^^^^
>> You shouldn't have listened to those debian-legal morons: we could have
>> lived with it as we used to. What about people who were using this
>> mode and seeing it suddenly vanish?
>> 
>> I think those people are wrong because:
>> 
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL
>
> Notice that i think the claim was that emacs provided bindings for the ocaml
> mode to use, and thus is considered as a linked work, as per paragraph two of
> the link you quoted above.

I don't understand how it applies to those emacs files. There is nothing
such a JNI-like binding in thsi ocaml mode.
Emacs calls the ocaml toplevel and that's all.

However, I found discrepencies: some .el files are QPL'ed and the
rest of them GPL.

-- 
J�r�me Marant

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