GPLv3: a first look

GPLv3: a first look

Posted Jan 19, 2006 14:06 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: GPLv3: a first look by bjlucier
Parent article: GPLv3: a first look

OCaml too. See the special exception at the top of:

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/ocaml/LICENSE.html

The original LGPL says something to the effect that if you use
an LGPL library within your proprietary binary, then you must
provide an object code version of the same binary which can be
relinked against a newer version of the LGPL library. (Nothing
to do with revealing the source though).

But OCaml has type-safe linking which means that object files
provided like this would be essentially useless. Any, even minor,
change to the interface to the LGPL library would mean that
linking would fail. So this clause is usually omitted from
LGPL OCaml libraries.

Rich.

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